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'''Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini''' ({{IPA-it|vinˈtʃɛntso salvaˈtoːre karˈmɛːlo franˈtʃesko belˈliːni|lang|It-Vincenzo Bellini.ogg}}; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian [[opera]] composer,<ref>The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica, [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vincenzo-Bellini "Vincenzo Bellini, Italian Composer"], ''Encyclopædia Britannica'', 15 January 2018.</ref><ref name=L&M1>{{harvnb|Lippmann|McGuire|1998|p=389}}</ref> who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of [[Catania]]".<ref>Giovanni (no surname provided) to "Uncle Ignazio" ("identified as Ignazio Giuffrida-Moschetti, Catanese friend of Bellini" in Weinstock), 18 January 1832, quoted in {{harvnb|Weinstock|1971|pp=109–110}}: the actual original wording was "the Swan of Sicily, or to phrase it better, of Catania".</ref> Many years later, in 1898, [[Giuseppe Verdi]] "praised the broad curves of Bellini's melody: 'there are extremely long melodies as no-one else had ever made before'."<ref>Verdi to Camille Belaigue, 2 May 1898, {{harvnb|Lippmann|McGuire|1998|p=392}}</ref>
A large amount of what is known about Bellini's life and activity comes from surviving letters
Bellini was the quintessential composer of the Italian ''[[bel canto]]'' era of the early 19th century, and his work has been summed up by the London critic Tim Ashley as:
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In considering which of his operas can be seen to be his greatest successes over the almost two hundred years since his death, ''[[Il pirata]]'' laid much of the groundwork in 1827, achieving very early recognition in comparison to [[Gaetano Donizetti|Donizetti]]'s having written thirty operas before his major 1830 triumph with ''[[Anna Bolena]]''. Both ''[[I Capuleti e i Montecchi]]'' at [[La Fenice]] in 1830 and ''[[La sonnambula]]'' in Milan in 1831 reached new triumphal heights, although initially ''[[Norma (opera)|Norma]]'', given at [[La Scala]] in 1831 did not fare as well until later performances elsewhere. "The genuine triumph"{{sfn|Lippmann|McGuire|1998|pp=389–390}} of ''[[I puritani]]'' in January 1835 in Paris capped a significant career. Certainly, ''Il pirata'', ''Capuleti'', ''La sonnambula'', ''Norma'', and ''I puritani'' are regularly performed today.<ref>[http://operabase.com/oplist.cgi?id=none&lang=en&is=&by=Bellini&loc=&stype=abs&sd=1&sm=1&sy=2012&etype=abs&ed=&em=&ey= List of "671 performances of 146 productions in 95 cities"] on [[Operabase]], from 1 January 2012 into 2015 on operabase.com. Retrieved 24 June 2014</ref>
After his initial success in Naples, most of the rest of his short life was spent outside of both Sicily and Naples, those years being followed with his living and composing in Milan and Northern Italy, and—after a visit to London—then came his final masterpiece in Paris, ''[[I puritani]]''. Only nine months later, Bellini died in [[Puteaux]], France, at the age of 33.
==Catania: early life==
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