Soprano Sarah Coburn as Elvira - or do I mean Ophelia?It's too much to say that Vincenzo Bellini revolutionized opera - but he certainly helped re-align it. Indeed, you could argue the long heyday of bel canto reached its height with him (rather than with Rossini, his great rival as both composer and cocktail inspiration). In his greatest hits, Bellini stripped much of the complexity out of the classical st…
SOURCE: The Hub Review at 11:38PM on May 6, 2014