In a Swiss village in the 19th century, a mysterious spectre prowls around every night. When the beautiful Amina is found asleep in the bed of Count Rodolfo, who is visiting Lisa's inn, she is accused ...

Just as a young woman is about to marry her love, she is found by her fiancé and the entire village no less, sleeping in another man's bed chamber. It takes him two acts to figure out that ...

Vincenzo Bellini's "La Sonnambula" is the high-definition broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday. The performance begins at noon at the Town Plaza Cinema. The encore will be broadcast at 7 ...

There are two main reasons why operas by Vincenzo Bellini are rarely seen compared with the works of several of other 19 th century contemporaries: the first is that he died at the age of 33 in 1835; ...

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Eloise Lally’s Little Italy take on Bellini’s Romeo and Juliet opera has, in Samantha Price and Jessica Cale, strong and powerful leads. In the pit however, things are less assured An attempt at ...

Olga Peretyatko makes her Met debut as Elvira in Bellini's last opera, I Puritani, with Michele Mariotti conducting the New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. A Puritan stronghold is under threat from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This handout photo provided on September 19, 2013 by the National Library of Spain (Biblioteca Nacional de Espana) shows a ...

In der Wagner-Stadt Berlin hatten es die Opern des Belcanto nie leicht. So wie man die frühe romantische Oper Carl Maria von Webers und Heinrich Marschners vom Musikdrama Richard Wagners zur Vorstufe ...

With their focus on the voice as the chief expressive device, Bellini’s operas are notoriously difficult to sing, and are rarely seen outside the major houses that can afford top-ranking artists who ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...