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The maestro, after ushering Bocelli back to his spotlight, conducted his choir gracefully and triumphantly into the aria, the screens behind them turning into the Asian backdrop of Giacomo Puccini’s ...

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Although “I Puritani” is an Italian opera through and through, it was conceived in Paris, at the height of the grand opéra tradition. Bellini studied Meyerbeer and Halévy in great detail, noting in ...