I Puritani (Complete opera) (Recorded April 1953 )

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BELLINI
I Puritani (Complete opera) (Recorded April 1953 )
Maria Callas (soprano) Aurora Cattelani (soprano) Carlo Forti (bass) Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) / Milan La Scala Orchestra / Tullio Serafin (conducto

[ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Tuesday 27 January 2004

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"The thrill of hearing Maria Callas launching into Bellini's dramatic arias, replete with vocal acrobatics, is one of opera's great experiences. Recorded in 1953, at the peak of her career, it has that burning and dramatic intensity to carry the disc as a personal triumph... Naxos makes the best of things."
-- David Denton, Yorkshire Post, March 12, 2004

The action of I Puritani takes place in the middle of the seventeenth century, towards the end of the English Civil War. England is divided between the Royalists, faithful to the Stuart monarchy and leaning towards Catholicism, and the Roundheads, the supporters of Oliver Cromwell and siding with Puritan religious views. King Charles I has been executed and his wife Queen Henrietta has escaped in disguise. The setting is Plymouth, a Puritan stronghold.