• Bellini - I Puritani Vocal Score (Softcover Book)
1 1
Ricordi

Bellini - I Puritani Vocal Score (Softcover Book)

$200.00
$200.00
Sold out

Includes GST

Sold out right now. We may be able to order it in. Call or message us and we’ll check with the supplier.
Call 03 4151 5751 Send us a message

Similar options in stock now

Make 4 interest-free payments of $50.00 with Afterpay
or pay nothing today with Zip

Delivery & collection

Standard shipping Free*

Ships once we’ve sourced it. We’ll confirm exact timing with you first.

Conditions apply.

Express shipping $15

1–3 business days depending on location.

Flat rate Australia-wide. Choose Express at checkout.

Click & Collect Free

From our Footscray showroom

Not sure it’s the right one? Talk to a player.

Call 03 4151 5751Send us a message
View full details

Description

SKU CP13924700

I Puritani is the last work of Vincenzo Bellini: composed in nine months from April 1834 to January 1835 (a gestation unusually long for that time) was performed for the first time in Paris Theâtre Italien 24 January 1835. During this period the dramatic structure suffered radical transformations: initially structured in two acts the work was divided into three acts just before the premiere but on the eve of the first performance and immediately after that the excessive length of the title imposed the cut of three pieces and other minor sections. Simultaneously with the release for Paris Bellini prepared a version designed for a planned exhibition for Naples at Teatro S. Carlo whose protagonist had to be Maria Malibran and in which the part of Riccardo had to be supported by a tenor. The exhibition did not take place as the score came late in Naples: the Neapolitan version was rediscovered and performed only in the eighties of the twentieth century. The new Critical Edition is based on the autograph on the libretto of the first performance and on four manuscript copies produced in the context of the Theâtre Italien in the first months of life of the work three of which contain autograph interventions (these sources are now kept at the Biblioteca Comunale in Palermo at the Museo Civico Belliniano in Catania at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milano and at the Staatsbibliothek zur Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin). This Edition presents for the first time all the music composed by Bellini it restores the sections deleted before or after the first performance in Paris and returns the modified sections of the Naples version; it consists of three-score volumes - introduced by a detailed reconstruction of the historical context - and of a "Apparati" volume with a description of the Sources and the Critical Commentary to the musical text.

Details & dimensions

Brand
Ricordi
Type
Vocal
Composer
Vincenzo BelliniSeries:Ricordi Opera Vocal Score Series
Catalogue no.
CP13924700
ISBN/UPC
9788875929688

More like this