This recording of Bellini's final opera, I Puritani, was made in 2017 and not released until the second half of 2021. Perhaps it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but marketing factors may also have played a role. The recording is a bit of an oddity, made in Kaunas, Lithuania, far from the usual operatic centers, and featuring two American stars and a group of Lithuanian singers (and one Kazakh). As it happens, it's a fine reading of the opera with many attractions bel canto buffs should check out. One for American ...
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This recording of Bellini's final opera, I Puritani, was made in 2017 and not released until the second half of 2021. Perhaps it was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, but marketing factors may also have played a role. The recording is a bit of an oddity, made in Kaunas, Lithuania, far from the usual operatic centers, and featuring two American stars and a group of Lithuanian singers (and one Kazakh). As it happens, it's a fine reading of the opera with many attractions bel canto buffs should check out. One for American listeners is that it offers a preview of conductor Constantine Orbelian, who, despite his U.S. birth, has worked mostly in the former Soviet countries but has now been appointed music director and principal conductor of the New York City Opera. His style is brisk, and he doesn't try to find more than is there in the rather schematic plot set during the English Civil War. However, he doesn't constrict the singers, who are uniformly good. The chief draw is tenor Lawrence Brownlee, who...
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