BELLINI: I Puritani

Bel canto lovers rejoice! Bellini’s I Puritani gets its first new Met production in nearly 50 years. The Met has assembled a quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio. Oropesa and Brownlee are the go-to stars for this opera and recently starred in a new complete recording of the opera on the just had a spectacularly successful run of I Puritani in Paris in February 2025 which critics said Oropesa's "...most impactful moments came not during the trills or runs, which were nonetheless impressive and made for a thoroughly delightful 'Son vergin vezzosa,' but in the…