I Capuleti e i Montecchi
Vincenzo Bellini
['Domenico Modugno', 'Jill Sobule', 'Stevie Wonder', 'Jan Hammer', 'John Waters', 'Christopher Tin', 'Boito', 'Mily Balakirev', 'Eric Idle', 'Monk', 'Arthur Sullivan', 'Martin Luther', 'Ajab Gul', 'Jerry Fielding', 'Rajesh Roshan', 'Mano Murthy', 'Michael', 'Domenico Cimarosa', 'Michael Penn', 'Terry Riley', 'Lou Reed', 'Nino Rota', 'Sherman Brothers', 'Danger Mouse', 'Anil Biswas', 'Geezer Butler', 'Loudon Wainwright III', 'Maria McKee', 'Nielsen', 'George Gershwin', 'Basil Poledouris', 'David Lynch', 'Phil Collins', 'Pergolesi', 'Paul Simon', 'Jimmy Chi', 'Goutam Ghosh', 'George Harrison', 'Lloyd Kaufman', 'David Newman', 'Sandy Wilson', 'Shane Carruth', 'Fred Ebb', 'Rolfe Kent', 'Bertrand Bonello', 'Cy Coleman', 'Victor Schertzinger', 'Luigi Cherubini', 'Jerry Amaldev', 'Mahler', 'Bob Dylan', 'Bruce Springsteen', 'Abel Meeropol', 'Hans Zimmer', 'Jules Massenet', 'Berlioz', 'Darius Milhaud', 'Jackson Browne', 'Hotei', 'Michael Nyman', 'Devi Sri Prasad', 'Darren Criss', 'Franz Xaver Gruber', 'Paul Hindemith', 'Bernard Herrmann', 'Johnny Green', 'Ludwig van Beethoven', 'Tom Waits', 'Samuel Hoffenstein', 'Carl Nielsen', 'Hanneman', 'Maureen Tucker', 'Ryuichi Sakamoto', 'Max Martin', 'Harold Budd', 'Ivan Caryll', 'Britten', 'George', 'Samuel Hui', 'Avicii', 'Artie Shaw', 'Ashley Tisdale', 'John Carpenter', 'Simon May', 'Siobhan Fahey', 'Lorenzo Ferrero', 'Dario Argento', 'Bruch', 'Rachmaninoff', 'Joplin', 'Edvard Grieg', 'Hayley Williams', 'Wagnerian', 'Herbert', 'Graham Nash', 'John Cale', 'Green Day', 'Jack Black', 'Spencer Williams']
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. Behind the libretto stand many Italian, ultimately Renaissance sources created by Matteo Bandello, and probably through their French translations by François de Belleforest and Pierre Boaistuau, rather than Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. The theme was very popular in Italy: there were earlier libretti by Luzzi for Marescalchi (1785, Venice), Foppa for Zingarelli (1796, Milan), and Buonaiuti for Pietro Carlo Guglielmi (1810, London). The first Italian libretto explicitly based on Shakespeare’s play did not appear until 1865; it was by M. M. Marcello, for Filippo Marchetti’s Romeo e Giulietta given in Trieste. 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.