Bellini’s
I Puritania
Live in HD
Saturday, January 10, 2026
10:00 AM PDT
Tickets on sale August 27, 2025
For gorgeous melody, spellbinding coloratura, and virtuoso vocal fireworks, I Puritani has few equals. On New Year’s Eve, the curtain goes up on the first new Met production of Bellini’s final masterpiece in nearly 50 years—a striking staging by Charles Edwards, who makes his company directorial debut after many successes as a set designer. The Met has assembled a world-beating quartet of stars, conducted by Marco Armiliato, for the demanding principal roles. Soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are Elvira and Arturo, brought together by love and torn apart by the political rifts of the English Civil War, with baritone Artur Ruciński as Riccardo, betrothed to Elvira against her will, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as Elvira’s sympathetic uncle, Giorgio.
Composer
Vincenzo Bellini
Librettist
Carlo Pepoli
SUNG IN Italian (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
RUNTIME: 3hrs 20m, One Intermission
This performance will be streamed live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to the big screen at Newport Performing Arts Center.
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