{"id":981,"date":"2017-10-23T22:41:08","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T22:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teste2017.wpengine.com\/?p=981"},"modified":"2018-01-29T19:38:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T19:38:58","slug":"bellini-i-puritani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/2017\/10\/23\/bellini-i-puritani\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellini: I Puritani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Label: BelAir Classiques\/Naxos<br \/>\nDiana Damrau, Javier Camarena, Ludovic T\u00e9zier, Nicolas Test\u00e9<br \/>\nEvelino Pid\u00f2,\u00a0conductor<br \/>\nEmilio Sagi,\u00a0director<\/p>\n<p>A jewel of bel canto, and Bellini\u2019s last masterpice,\u00a0<em>I Puritani\u00a0<\/em>encapsulates every major theme held dear by the Italian romantic generation: a love triangle, quid pro quos, a shattered love affair leading to madness, set in Cromwell\u2019s England with its lot of political rivalries. It is also an ode to resistance and to freedom, echoing the political struggles that the Italian peninsula was facing in the 1830\u2019s. But it is mainly a testament to Bellini\u2019s unique musical brand, a genius combination of melodic brightness, post-rossinian ornaments, and a profound and melancolic\u00a0<em>lamento<\/em>\u00a0that owes much to traditional Neapolitan songs.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore one of the most vocally demanding opera of the repertoire, and to face this challenge, the Teatro Real of Madrid called on four exceptional singers\u00a0: the great diva Diana Damrau is Elvira, Javier Camarena is Arturo (both triumphed at the Metropolitan Opera of New York in the same opera in 2017), as well as baritone Ludovic T\u00e9zier and bass-baritone Nicolas Test\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Catalan director Emilio Sagi offers a staging both elegant and simple, and bel canto expert Evelino Pid\u00f2, along with the Teatro Real Orchestra and Chorus, brings forth every nuance of this immense and unforgettable score.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I puritani de Vincenzo Bellini | Teatro Real 200 a\u00f1os 15\/16\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AA0m18yHHaU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Label: BelAir Classiques\/Naxos Diana Damrau, Javier Camarena, Ludovic T\u00e9zier, Nicolas Test\u00e9 Evelino Pid\u00f2,\u00a0conductor Emilio Sagi,\u00a0director A jewel of bel canto, and Bellini\u2019s last masterpice,\u00a0I Puritani\u00a0encapsulates every major theme held dear by the Italian romantic generation: a love triangle, quid pro quos, a shattered love affair leading to madness, set in Cromwell\u2019s England with its lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvd","category-recordings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicolasteste.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}