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Unbroken line: what does II Pirata have to do with Tristan und Isolde? Will Crutchfield looks at the great impact Bellini had on Wagner.

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| February 01, 2003 | Crutchfield, Will | COPYRIGHT 2003 Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One of the sharper snide remarks in John Culshaw's Ring Resounding--the record producer's entertaining and contentious 1967 account of the first studio recording of Wagner's Ring--concerns the importance of the music director and the likely affinities of same. "Can anyone name a real conductor who has shown an atom of passion for Bellini?"

The intended target of this dart was obviously Richard Bonynge, who along with his wife, Joan Sutherland, had just then more or less co-opted the Italian wing of Culshaw's record company, Decca/London. In the space of three years, Bonynge had imposed no fewer than four Bellini operas on a catalogue that before his arrival had ...

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