Bellini I Puritani

The new Critical Edition is based on the autograph, on the libretto of
the first performance and on four manuscript copies produced in the
context of the Thétre Italien in the first months of life of the work,
three of which contain autograph interventions (these sources are now
kept at the Biblioteca Comunale in Palermo, at the Museo Civico
Belliniano in Catania, at the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milano and
at the Staatsbibliothek zur Preussischer Kulturbesitz in Berlin). This
Edition presents for the first time all the music composed by Bellini,
it restores the sections deleted before or after the first performance
in Paris, and returns the modified sections of the Naples version; it
consists of three-score volumes - introduced by a detailed
reconstruction of the historical context - and of a Apparati volume
with a description of the Sources and the Critical Commentary to the
musical text.