Donald Macleod tells the story of Bellini's last success. / Puritani was Bellini's tenth opera. He was still a young man, adored in Italy, London and Paris and acclaimed by Rossini and Donizetti. But for some years, the warm summerweatherhad brought with it a bout of stomach trouble. Within a year of the first performance of I Puritani in Paris in 1835, Bellini was dead. Overture: /
Puritani Philharmonia , conductor Riccardo Muti // Rival Salvar Tu Dei (I Puritani)
Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), LSO, conductor Richard Bonynge
/ Puritani (Act 3) Montserrat Caballe
(soprano), Alfredo Kraus (tenor), Matteo Manuguerra (baritone), Agostino Ferrin (bass), Ambrosian Opera Chorus,
Philharmonia, conductor Riccardo Muti