Vincenzo Bellini
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Vincenzo Bellini (Catania, November 3 1801 - Puteaux, near Paris, September 23 1835) was an Italian composer and one of the most important opera composers of the early 19th century.
Bellini's genius was mostly musical rather than dramatic. He was admired for his melodies, notable for their elegiac beauty and long arching phrases. His first success was Il pirata in 1827, followed by I Capuleti e Montecchi in 1830. Then came his most famous operas La sonnambula (1831), Norma (1831) and his last I puritani (1835), which proved a sensational triumph.
His second to last work Beatrice di Tenda (1833) was less successful.
Although his operas never left the repertoire, they regained prominence in the 1950s due largely to soprano Maria Callas, followed by Joan Sutherland in the 1960s.
Reference[change]
- The Complete Dictionary of Opera and Operetta, James Anderson, Wings Books, 1993.
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