The Intimate Bellini: Bel Canto Young Artists

“There are long, long, long melodies such as no-one had ever made before,” wrote Giuseppe Verdi of Bellini’s unique gift. Wagner was moved to the same incantatory repetition: “Song, song, and once again song, ye Germans,” he urged in an essay praising the hypnotic Italian master.  Bellini poured his melody also into the intimate vessel of piano-accompanied songs – sometimes developing ideas that later found their way into his operas. The Bel Canto Young Artists join Director of Opera Will Crutchfield in this tribute to the father of modern melody.