Charles Edwards’s deceptively traditional, exceptionally sung production of Bellini’s “I Puritani” makes space for its stars. By Joshua Barone The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I ...

Watch Hyona Kim, SeokJong Baek, and Andrzej Filończyk, as Suzuki, Pinkerton, and Sharpless, sing an excerpt from the Act III trio from the Met Opera's production of Madama Butterfly. (more...) ...

On I puritani, by Bellini, at the Metropolitan Opera. It has been a good season at the Met for “the sweet Sicilian,” as Wagner called Bellini. The company had already staged La sonnambula. (For my ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pier Luigi Pizzi’s 1984 production of Bellini’s take on the Romeo and Juliet story has been revived at the Royal Opera House, with two star singers. Mezzo Elina Garanca and soprano Anna Netrebko are ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. In the pit on Tuesday night was Maurizio Benini, the veteran Italian. The overture was sturdy and energetic.

The soprano appeared in more than two dozen productions at the house in Milan as she rose to become opera’s leading lady. Here are six highlights. By Farah Nayeri Mario Bellini, Gaetano Pesce and ...