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...) ...

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 ...

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 ...

That performances of Bellini’s I Capuleti e i Montecchi remain rare is baffling. It is such a supremely elegant score and so theatrically appealing it makes Rossini seem frazzled and Donizetti plain ...

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 ...

To say it immediately, Nadine Sierra proved herself a great singer at the Metropolitan Opera last night. The company began a run of La sonnambula, Bellini’s opera of 1831. I will return to Ms. Sierra ...

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 ...