Vincenzo Bellini - Il Pirata: Sinfonia

Il pirata (The Pirate) is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini to an Italian libretto by Felice Romani which was based on a three-act mélodrame from 1826, Bertram, ou le Pirate (Bertram, or The Pirate) by Charles Nodier and “Raimonde“ (actually Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor). However, this play was itself based upon a French translation of the “five-act verse tragedy“ Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobrando by Charles Maturin which appeared in London in 1816. [...]