A native of Sicily composer Gioacchino Rossini and coined together with Domenico Donizetti opera, the European theater of the first half of the 19th Century. The produced in his works unique relationship between music and text was based on a lyrical and dramatic style of Vincenzo Bellini, whose influence in the subsequent Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner could not even escape …
Vincenzo Bellini was born on 3 November 1801, the son of Rosario Bellini in Catania, Sicily Ferlito and Agata (Italy) was born.
His father, a musician himself, procured him an early music education. Already seven years Vincenzo wrote his first plays. From 1819 to 1825 Bellini studied at the Royal College of Music, “San Sebastiano” in Naples. With some initial sympathy for the political secret society of the Carbonari, which temporarily forced into the small revolution from 1820 to 1821 the Bourbon king Ferdinand I. to grant a Constitution, Bellini contained any future political participation in the Italian national movement.
Instead, he wrote in his Neapolitan still studying six symphonies, two masses and other musical pieces. In 1825 he debuted at the Sebastian College with his first opera, “Adelson e Salvini”, which he then took as his thesis for the performance. A year later he was able to perform his second opera, already at the prestigious San Carlo Theater in Naples, the Bourbons of the Court Theatre.
In 1827 he celebrated with the opera “Il Pirata” at La Scala for the first time a show’s success outside of the Bourbon Kingdom of Two Sicilies, which was repeated a year later in Vienna. The 1829 success was followed by another opera in the same house, overshadowed by the failed opera “Zaira,” which met with disapproval in Parma. Until 1833, joined other operas, the Bellini performed between Milan and Venice.
That same year marked the invitation to opera performances in London and Paris the beginning of his international fame. With the fantastic rejoinder he was initially in London and then in Paris, the performance of several of his compositions. In the French hub he met the exiled German romantics including Heinrich Heine. Here was his last opera, which he performed in 1835 at the Italian theater in town.
The maestro was able to contribute to his success on the international stage itself only two years. For Vincenzo Bellini died on 24 September 1835 in Puteaux (near Paris).
