People.com — "It's hard to go to Capri and not have a Bellini," Winfrey said more info

Guardian Music — Perhaps no play of Shakespeare has been the theme of so many musical compositions as the story of the Veronese loversShakespeare has long been a prolific quarry for the writers of opera librettos, and inasmuch as the fact of one composer having alrea... more info

Guardian Music — It's the cringe-proof dance that knows no shame. And it refuses to go awayGangnam Style (the video that's taken the – oh, you know what it is) is meant to be dead. Several times over.According to Time magazine, Gangnam first died in early October, ... more info

Mercury News, California — Joyce DiDonato and Nicole Cabell dazzle with bel canto song as Romeo and Giulietta in Vincenzo Bellini's 'The Capulets and the Montagues.' To hear these incredible singers in a hipster production, run -- don't walk -- to War Memorial Opera House. more info

Mercury News, California — Also: San Francisco Opera presents Bellini's 'The Capulets and the Montaguesand Jake Heggie's 'Moby-Dick.' more info

Guardian Music — Giannattasio/Bros/Tézier/LPO/Parry (Opera Rara)Il Pirata made Bellini's name at its premiere in October 1827, a few days before his 26th birthday. A remarkable work, it contains, almost fully formed, the essence of both his preoccupations and style.... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Albert Hall, LondonWhen Juan Diego Flórez first appeared in the Rosenblatt Recitals series in 2001, he sang at St John's, Smith Square, in London. He has subsequently stepped up to the much larger Royal Festival Hall, and now to the vast Alber... more info

Guardian Music — I need help. What is there apart from empty rumty-tum, trivial jollity - well, and the odd good tune - in Bellini's bel canto operas?I remember when it happened, the first - and only - time I ever fell asleep in an opera. Jane Eaglen was on stage in ... more info

Guardian Music — Grand, LeedsBellini's opera Norma is often regarded as the pinnacle of the bel canto period, when the virtuoso potential of the human voice stood unchallenged as the expressive centre of the medium. Its title role of the Druid priestess who has betr... more info

Guardian Music — Bellini's views on somnanbulism are very much of his time – who thinks a sleepwalker is a phantom these days?At the performance of Bellini's opera I saw, something went wrong with the curtains: we were all sent trooping off to the bar while the cu... more info