An exaggerated Romantic Michael Kennedy considers a long account of the short, turbulent life of the composer Bellini

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 4, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Bellini: Life, Times, Music 1801-1835

by Stelios Galatopoulos

Sanctuary, pounds 19.99, 485 pp

pounds 17.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222

VINCENZO BELLINI 's bicentenary last year was marked more prolifically in the world's opera houses than his centenary had been. At the end of the 19th century there were few singers who commanded the bel canto style needed to do full justice to the best of his operas. Bernard Shaw admired his music, but there are hardly any reviews of the operas in his collected criticisms.

After the Second World War, however, the advent of dramatic coloratura sopranos ...

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