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I puritani is an Italian opera in three acts by Vincenzo Bellini, first performed in Paris, on January 25, 1835, libretto by Carlo Pepoli, after Jacques Ancelot and Xavier Boniface Saintine's Têtes Rondes et Cavaliers, itself based on Sir Walter Scott's Old Morality. Bellini's last work and one of his greatest triumphs.

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  • The Complete Dictionary of Opera & Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993.

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  • Harvard Theatre Collection - Bellini TCS 1.2246

    Vincenzo Bellini

  • Belgiosjoso-detail from 764px

    Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso 1832, by Francesco Hayez (detail)

  • Salle Favart (première salle)

    In 1829 the Théâtre-Italien was performing in the first Salle Favart

  • Carlo Pepoli

    Librettist Carlo Pepoli

  • Disegno per copertina di libretto, disegno di Peter Hoffer per I Puritani (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON012420

    Drawing for a cover of I puritani (undated)

  • Giovanni-Battista-Rubini as Arturo in I Puritani

    Rubini as Arturo in I puritani, Paris 1835

  • Giulia Grisi et Luigi Lablache dans Les Puritains de Bellini

    Grisi and Lablache in I puritani, King's Theatre, London, 1835

  • Antonio Tamburini-small

    Antonio Tamburini sang Riccardo – Lithography by Josef Kriehuber

  • Credeasi misera high F

    An excerpt from "Credeasi, misera", act 3. The notes highlighted (above the high C) are among the highest demanded in tenor operatic repertoire and are usually sung falsetto or altogether transposed.

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