I Puritani

It's hard to imagine a video opera collection without this superbly sung MET production of Bellini's I Puritani. Not that it's perfect by any means, but its excellences--most especially Anna Netrebko's electrifying singing and acting of Elvira--banish carping about other aspects of this memorable night at the opera. Netrebko is fragile from the start, her facial expressions and hand movements immediately conveying the girl's vulnerability . She has a mad scene in each act; the first when she realizes her fiancé has disappeared with another woman, the third, in the final act, a brief relapse when her returned fiancé is taken by the army to be executed. But it's in the second act that the real fireworks occur, with a Mad Scene that rivals Donizetti's Lucia for bel canto primacy. Here, Elvira is first heard off-stage, after the chorus has informed us that she's deranged . She enters wearing her wedding gown and begins Qui la voce in a voice as frail as her psyche.

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I Puritani regisserades av Sandro Sequi. I rollerna ses bland andra Eric Cutler, Anna Netrebko, John Relyea och Valerian Ruminski.

Speltiden är 2 timmar och 29 minuter. Originalspråket är italienska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa I Puritani i Sverige.