Name: I Puritani – Highlights
Start: 2021-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Gstaad Festival Tent

Organization

Gstaad Menuhin Festival

Conductor

Domingo Hindoyan

Singer

Soprano

Zuzana Marková

Elvira

Tenor

Francesco Demuro

Lord Arthur Talbo

Baritone

Erwin Schrott

Sir Richard Forth

Mezzo-soprano

Annalisa Stroppa

Henrietta of France

George Petean

Bass

Antonio Di Matteo

Sir George

Patrizio Saudelli

Orchestra

Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

I Puritani – Highlights

Saanen

Switzerland

Gstaad Festival Tent

I Puritani – Highlights: I puritani Bellini

Public

The Puritans

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

This is one of the most iconic operas of Italian bel canto: the Gstaad Menuhin Festival is delighted to offer its audience a wide selection of arias, choruses and orchestral interludes from Vincenzo Bellini's “I puritani”, specially selected by conductor Domingo Hindoyan. The Zürcher Sing-Akademie and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande will play host to a first-class cast, for this evening which, placing music at the centre, is an opportunity to go beyond the necessarily superficial knowledge of such a work based on a handful of great arias, moreover immortalised by legendary interpretations such as those of Maria Callas or Joan Sutherland, to plunge into the heart of Bellini's ultimate gem, offered to Paris and then to the world in early 1835, just a few months before the composer died at the far too early age of 33.An opera that pays more attention to details of orchestration than previous ones and requires literally “supersonic” soloists, like Elvira, “prototype of the romantic heroine driven mad by emotional shock” (Alain Perroux), whose melodies are so perfect that they were to guide Frédéric Chopin in his quest for a piano that “sings”...

English

I Puritani – Highlights by Bellini, From (2021/2021), Conductor Domingo Hindoyan, Gstaad Festival Tent, Saanen, Switzerland

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

Photos

Further reading

Performance Dates & Venues

Venues