This listing is for Bellini, Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge – I Puritani 2xCassette Box Set OSA5-13111.

Label: London Records – OSA5-13111
Format: 2 x Cassette, Album, Box Set 
Country: US
Released: 1976
Genre: Classical
Style: Romantic, Opera  
Includes a 76-pages booklet
The libretto is © G. Ricordi & Co., reprinted by arrangement

Tracklist:

Act I, Part 1
A1 All'erta! All'erta! L'alba Appari
A2 Ah Non Ho Forza A Sostener, Ah No
Act I, Part 2
B1 Ad Arturo Onore
B2 Eterno Sia Il Penar
Act II
C1 Ah Dolor! Ah Terror!
C2 Patria, Vittoria Onor
Act III
D1 Son Salvo, Alfin Son Salvo
D2 Amor Coronera Tanta Fedeltà

Baritone Vocals (Riccardo) – Piero Cappuccilli
Bass Vocals (Giorgio Valton) – Nicolai Ghiaurov
Bass Vocals (Gualtiero Valton) – Gian Carlo Luccardi
Chorus – Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Chorus Master – Douglas Robinson
Composed By – Vincenzo Bellini
Conductor – Richard Bonynge
Libretto By – Carlo Pepoli
Mezzo-soprano Vocals (Enrichetta) – Anita Caminada
Music Consultant (Stylistic Adviser) – Roberto Benaglio
Orchestra – London Symphony Orchestra
Soprano Vocals (Elvira) – Joan Sutherland
Tenor Vocals (Arturo Talbo) – Luciano Pavarotti
Tenor Vocals (Sir Bruno Roberton) – Renato Cazzaniga
Text By (Bellini, Paris And I Puritani) – William Weaver

I puritani (The Puritans) is an 1835 opera by Vincenzo Bellini. It was originally written in two acts and later changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini, with whom the young composer had become friends. The music was set to a libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, an Italian émigré poet whom Bellini had met at a salon run by the exile Princess Belgiojoso, which became a meeting place for many Italian revolutionaries. The opera is based on Têtes Rondes et Cavaliers (Roundheads and Cavaliers), a historical play written by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine and set in the English Civil War, which some sources state was based on Walter Scott's 1816 novel Old Mortality, while others state that there is no connection. When Bellini arrived in Paris in mid-August 1833, he had intended to stay only about three weeks, the main aim being to continue the negotiations with the Paris Opéra which had begun on his way to London a few months earlier. These negotiations came to nothing, but by October he had decided to spend the winter in that city, especially as both Il pirata and I Capuleti e i Montecchi were to be given by the Théâtre-Italien that season. The offer from the Théâtre came in January 1834; he accepted because "the pay was richer than what I had received in Italy up to then, though only by a little; then because of so magnificent a company; and finally so as to remain in Paris at others' expense." Taking from April until its premiere the following January, Bellini had time to ensure that the opera was as close to perfection as possible. After the premiere, Bellini reported to his friend Francesco Florimo in Naples that:

"The French had all gone mad; there were such noise and such shouts that they themselves were astonished at being so carried away ... In a word, my dear Florimo, it was an unheard of thing, and since Saturday, Paris has spoken of it in amazement"

It was to be Bellini's final work; he died in September 1835 at the age of 33.

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