Lakeside Little Theatre (LLT) serves up the fifth opera of its 2025-2026 MET season, Vincenzo Bellini’s bel canto “I Puritani”, on Monday, February 2, 4 p.m.
Set during England’s Civil War (c. 1650), “I Puritani” tells the tragic tale of delicate Elvira, a Puritan daughter who loves the Royalist Arturo. Their forbidden romance is complicated by the jealous Puritan suitor Riccardo, political intrigue, and Elvira’s descent into madness.
According to New York Classic Review, the leading voices were astounding. Acclaimed German soprano Elvira Damrau, who played Elvira, has an “... ability to channel Bellini’s florid writing into overpowering grief [that is] astonishing.” And, to hear Mexican tenor Javier Camarena, who plays Arturo, “... is truly to hear one of the great voices of our time.”
LLT will project “I Puritani,” filmed live at the New York MET, in the McIntosh Auditorium, with its state-of-the-art projection, screen and sound system. The opera is sung in Italian and presented with English subtitles.
Tickets, 350 pesos, are available at lakesidelittletheatre.com or the LLT box office before the performance.