I Capuleti e i Montecchi is an opera by Vincenzo Bellini based on which story?
I Capuleti e i Montecchi 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
I Capuleti e i Montecchi thoroughly reworked nine melodies from his unsuccessful "Zaira" into "I Capuleti e i Montecchi": he explained that ""Zaira", hissed at Parma, was avenged by "I Capuleti"". In addition, Giulietta’s ""Oh quante volte"" in act 1 uses Nelly’s "romanza", ""Dopo l’oscuro nembo"" from "Adelson e Salvini", written for Naples in 1825. At the premiere of "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" on 11 March 1830 success for Bellini returned. Weinstock describes the premiere as "an unclouded and immediate success" but it was only able to be performed eight times before the La Fenice season closed on 21 March. A local newspaper, "I