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' (''The Puritans'') is an opera in three acts by Vincenzo Bellini, although it was originally written with two acts and changed to three acts on the advice of Gioachino Rossini with whom the young composer had become friendly.〔Weaver 1987, p. 18〕 The music was set to a libretto by Count Carlo Pepoli, an Italian émigré poet who Bellini had met at a salon run by the exile Princess Belgiojoso, which became a meeting place for many Italian revolutionaries. The subject was ''Têtes Rondes et Cavalieres'' (''Roundheads and Cavaliers''), written by Jacques-François Ancelot and Joseph Xavier Saintine, which some sources state was based on Walter Scott's novel ''Old Mortality,''〔Weaver 1987, p. 16〕 while others state that there is no connection.〔Osborne 1994, p. 350〕 When Bellini arrived in Paris in mid-August 1833, he had intended to stay only about three weeks, the main aim being to continue the negotiations with the Paris Opéra which had begun on his way to London a few months earlier.〔Weinstock 1971, pp. 156—157〕 However, these negotiations came to nothing, but by October he had decided to spend the winter in that city, especially as both ''Il pirata'' and ''I Capuleti e i Montecchi'' were to be given by the Théâtre-Italien that season. The offer from the Théâtre came in January 1834; he accepted because "the pay was richer than what I had received in Italy up to then, though only by a little; then because of so magnificent a company; and finally so as to remain in Paris at others' expense."〔Bellini to Vincenzo Ferlito, 1 April 1835, in Walker 1971, p. 157; original source: Cambi 1945.〕 Taking from April until its premiere the following January, Bellini had time to ensure that the opera was as close to perfection as possible. After the premiere, Bellini reported to his friend Francesco Florimo in Naples that: The French had all gone mad; there were such noise and such shouts that they themselves were astonished at being so carried away ... In a word, my dear Florimo, it was an unheard of thing, and since Saturday, Paris has spoken of it in amazement〔Bellini to Florimo, (unknown; postmarked 26 January 1835 ), in Weinstock 1971, p. 184〕 It was to be Bellini's final work; he died in September 1835 at the age of 33. ==Composition history== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I puritani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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