Opera

I Puritani

0 upcoming performances in New York

Vincenzo Bellini’s *I Puritani* (1835) is a bel canto opera set against the English Civil War, where private loyalties collide with public faction. Written to an Italian exile’s libretto and revised before its first performance in Paris, it reflects the era’s cross-currents of politics, displacement, and salon culture. In New York, the work has been a recurring presence at the Metropolitan Opera since the company’s early decades, reappearing when vocal casting can meet its demands. Its story treats history less as pageant than pressure, tightening around one fragile romance.