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

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”...

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Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble