The operatic oeuvre

of Vincenzo Bellini

Symposium

Vorgestellte Opern: »Norma«,» Betrice di Tenda«, »I puritani«

Sunday 2. November 2025 10:00 – 13:30 No intermissions Gustav-Mahler-Saal

Cast on
2. November 2025

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Maria Rosa De Luca

Matteo Giuggioli

Sarah Hibbert

About the symposium

To mark the 190th anniversary of the death of Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835), the Vienna State Opera and the Institute of Musicology at the University of Vienna are organizing the symposium The operatic oeuvre of Vincenzo Bellini: "Lirico puro" or "uomo di teatro"? from 31 October to 2 November 2025.

Each of Bellini's ten operas will be the subject of a separate introduction, including image and sound sequences, which corresponds to the current state of research and at the same time represents an invitation to the generally interested public to become (more) familiar with Bellini's operatic oeuvre as a whole.

The program

10.00 
Afterlives of the Classical, Refigurations of the Tragic
Maria Rosa De Luca*: Afterlives of the Classical, Refigurations of the Tragic in Norma (1831)

11.30
A spiritual and political tragedy
Matteo Giuggioli: Beatrice di Tenda (1833)

12.30 
"Far piangere, inorridire, morire cantando"
Sarah Hibberd*: Bellini's Paris opera I puritani (1835)


* Lecture in English

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