Since 1955, when Lyric Opera mounted its first production of "I Puritani" to display Maria Callas in one of her most celebrated bel canto roles, Vincenzo Bellini's final opera has drifted in and out of the Lyric repertory, rather like the fragile heroine Elvira's flights between sanity and madness....
SOURCE: Chicago Tribune at 11:10AM on February 5, 2018