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I Capuleti e i Montecchi

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (The Capulets and the Montagues) is an Italian opera (tragedia lirica) in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini. The libretto by Felice Romani was a reworking of the story of Romeo and Juliet for an opera by Nicola Vaccai called Giulietta e Romeo and based on the play of the same name by Luigi Scevola written in 1818, thus an Italian source rather than taken directly from William Shakespeare.

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Felice Romani

Italian

Luigi Scevola's play Giulietta e Romeo

11 March 1830 (1830-03-11)
Teatro La Fenice, Venice

Bellini was persuaded to write the opera for the 1830 Carnival season at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, with only a month and a half available for composition. He succeeded by appropriating a large amount of music previously written for his unsuccessful opera Zaira.


The first performance of I Capuleti e i Montecchi took place on 11 March 1830.[1][2]

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Forbes, Elizabeth

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(1971). Bellini: His Life and His Operas. New York: Knopf. ISBN 0394416562.

Weinstock, Herbert

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Orrey, Leslie (1973), Bellini (The Master Musicians Series), London: J. M. Dent.  0-460-02137-0

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Rosselli, John (1996), The Life of Bellini, New York: Cambridge University Press.  0-521-46781-0

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Thiellay, Jean; Thiellay, Jean-Philippe, Bellini, Paris: Actes Sud, 2013,  978-2-330-02377-5 (in French)

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Willier, Stephen Ace, . Routledge, 2002. ISBN 0-8153-3805-8 and on books.google.com.

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: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project

I Capuleti e i Montecchi (Bellini)

(in Italian and Spanish)

Libretto of I Capuleti e i Montecchi

on archive.org (in English and Italian)

Libretto of I Capuleti e i Montecchi