V. Bellini I Puritani Teatro di San Carlo Concert version. 2022 

The encore was outstanding. Bravo!

Excellent performance!

Madonna! Even the clarinet soloist is a Bellini stylist with a beautiful sound. Great recording. 🏆

This is an utterly stunning, musical, patrician performance which for me encapsulates the heart of Bellini and Bel canto - they're all splendid but the energy and cohesiveness arrive from the conductor. I'd never thought i'd hear something like this in the 2000s. Historic performance.

I was at the San Carlo in April 2023 to see Kaufmann in Die Walkure. This Puritani is very good, and I saw Sutherland, Sills, and Anderson. Oropesa is very fine.

What a stunning cast! Brilliant how easily and naturally Oropresa's sound pours out from her. And the timbre is just so intrinsically beautiful. Xabier Anduaga is equally outstanding - a new star in the heavens. A real Italianate tenor so perfectly suited to this extremely difficult repertory. Few master it with the perfection heard here.

xabier is ny favorite, and lisette of course the best

Wykonanie perfekcyjne a Lisette wręcz rewelacyjna ! Xabier ma niezwykły talent i staje się jednym z najlepszych tenorów w swojej kategorii wiekowej - wróżę mu wielką karierę !

What's changed in this new 'critical edition'? My favorite "Puritani" was June Anderson and Gregory Kunde in 1993 San Francisco. It wasn't just La Anderson's pure note-perfect singing, but the dreamy, melancholy timber of her voice suited Elvira (and Bellini) perfectly. Kunde sang like a belcanto god, hitting Arturo's 3 high notes (come scritto, not optional) C-sharp, D-flat and F-natural like he was eating them for breakfast every day! Good times.

The more I watch this the more I think this was a truly historic performance to have been at, it is simply quite stunning from start to finish.

Che gran piacere! Molte grazie per tutti interpreti

BRAVISSIMO TENOR

OROPESA, OROPESA, OROPESA GENIAL AND CHARMING OPERA.

For a concert performance this is stunning. Xabier Andagua and Lisette Oropresa are vocally amazing. Thanks for posting.

I simply cannot believe this incredible performance I was privileged to see in Napoli last September has been posted up. Thank you so much it was a stunning evening at the opera one of my highlights of an operatic going life of almost 50 years now. Xabier Andagua is the emergent new tenor superstar of international opera his bel canto is just getting better and better, and he isn’t even 30 yet! As for Lisette Oropresa, she is just stunning and the chemistry between them both on stage was there to be seen by all. The A teo Cara at about 41 minutes in I was sitting in the second row of the stalls directly in front of Xabier Andagua and Lisette Oropresa The Queen and Arturo scene at about 53 minutes, just listen to Xabier Andagua in this scene Lisette at about 1.40 moving into her mad scene and then the two supporting men at about 1:45 she was just brilliant in this scene, I mean brilliant. Just listen to her at 1.50 how she sings along with the orchestra - it was spellbinding in the theatre and those top notes - wow. As for the men on the fringes of this opera - just listen to the duet at about 2.02 through to 2.12 - it is just stunning. Davide Luciano and Gianluca Buratto Then OMG the duet with Lisette off stage at about 2.17 and what follows it just goes on and on. This is a quite brilliant performance. Listen to this young man at 2.44 how he breaks into the lush tones of a tenor that knows he is in control of his own destiny, this young man is going to be the voice of the next 25 years. He is simply stunning in this repertoire. After this aria Lisette Oropressa just looked at him and you could see in her eyes what she was thinking - I spoke to her at the stage door afterwards and asked her what it was like singing with him she said oh my god he is going to blow the world away! Shes not bad herself Believe me this is a stunning performance and it is wonderful to be able to relive it again and again!!!! Thank you San Carlos! This was a night at the opera I will never ever forget and now see it over and over again!

La morte di Bellini a 34 anni è stata di gran lunga la più grande tragedia dell'arte italiana.

THANKS FOR SHARING THIS GREAT OPERA and the excellent singers starting with LISETTE and XABIER

I was there. Great performance.

❤❤❤👏👏👏 Thank you so much for posting this wonderful performance. I read about Xabier Anduaga, but missed his debut at the MET last year. He is excellent. He delivered all the high notes and falsettos beautifully. He also knows how to control the column of his voice very well and he is only 29 now. Looking forward to seeing more of him.

Avec un duo en fin d'opéra jamais chanté. Merci.

Happy to note that they used the original final aria, which was not used in the final version as it was considered too difficult.

outstanding performance c est magnifique j ai adorè I wish I were here

"Ella tremante" fantastisch gesungen.

41:43 A te, o cara 48:18 Il rito augusto si compia senza me 1:38:40 O rendetemi la speme 1:50:40 Vien, diletto, è in ciel la luna 2:41:01 Credeasi, misera!

I had the chance to see both Lisette (Supreme) and Xabier live, and they both are stunning. This needs to be a full production please!!!

LISETTE OROPESA NR 1BRAVISSIMA SALUTI DALLA POLONIA

GRAZIEEEEEEEEEE

This is a magnificent performance.Just outstanding. Bellini would have been very proud. I must say, I enjoyed it immensely. Thank You so much for uploading this wonderful opera for all to enjoy.

Miss Oropesa's four dresses impressed me the most

ALL BRAVI !!!

Ein gutes video danke

0:42 14:04 Or dove fuggo mai? 25:09 Scena 2 41:03 A te o cara

Хавьер - лучший Артуро из тех 5 "Пуритан", что я слышала в последнее время: Мет, Мариинский, Реал, Венская опера. У Лизетты голос дребезжит

Una maravilla.👏👏👏👏👏👏

Somewhere some Mafia while singing very nice, Oropesa, Tenor, Director❤❤❤❤❤

Does anyone else think that there's a resemblance of Xavier to a young Carreras? Great performance!

❤❤❤😊😊😊🎉🎉🎉

Thank you so much for posting 🙏 I saw the last performance of I Puritani at the San Carlo in Napoli on 16 September 2022. A truly memorable experience! Someone may say that Oropesa is a little bit too light for this role, and Anduaga should keep improving his technique (starting from his diction), but they both were stunning, much better on 16 September than here. And I can’t forget Davide Luciano as Riccardo. This is a performance to cherish!

Тенор прекрасный!!

Do you have Il Barbiere di siviglia with Xabier Anduaga and Jessica Pratt?

2:32:59 Slow cabaletta...invented by Donizetti! 2:34:55 Nice Double-D 😁 2:45:10 No high F ??? Peccato

41:22 (46:30🥹)

Very strange performance….. Italian orchestra with Italian conductor with no feel of Bellini’s music whatsoever…..

41:05 a te, o cara

Il baritono è un tenore

I personally don't like the bis of the duet. The timing was not satisfying somehow.

Joan sutherland’s old recording of i puritani confirms one thing: her voice was huge. The soprano here is good but sounds pip squeak even with the mic beside her.

Andagua voce modesta, Oropesa voce non che non va oltre la correttezza esecutiva.

Оропеза в ее сегодняшней форме - уже второй эшелон (если вообще когда-то была в первом), ее пискляво-жестяной тембр вообще недопустим в партии Эльвиры. Для меня большая загадка - как она оказалась в Сан Карло именно в этой партии. Полагаю, срочная, ооооочень срочная замена. Андуага действительно, как тут уже написали, наконец-то начал работать над своей манерой исполнения бельканто и многое уже неплохо, но продолжает вскрикивать, никак не может удержаться. Оркестр куда так бежал, тоже не понял. Абсолютно проходной концерт, без откровений

The Baritone needs to learn concert deportment,he sounds like a second tenor. Soprano and tenor are exceptional.

Uncut. Very nice. Maestro Sagripanti keeps things moving but is accommodating to his singers. Bellini can become very glacial and lachrymose at too slow tempi. Oropesa and Anduaga very good. The concluding cabaletta was originally a duet with Arturo taking the lead.