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Vincenzo Bellini, an Autonomous Personality in Romanticism through His Libretto Thematology. Special Reference to the Absolute Tragedy of Norma
Areti Tziboula, Anna-Maria Rentzeperi-Tsonou

Abstract
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835) was an opera composer who, throughout his short career, demanded recognition. He was a tough negotiator of the profits for his commissions and managed to live solely by his works. With the belief that the libretto is a major concept of an opera, he was particularly demanding in his choice of librettists. He preferred Romani, until he fell out with him. The failure of their last collaboration led him to Paris. For his subjects, he used his contemporary French or Italian literary works as sources. They are mainly set in the Medieval era and are characterized by tragic passion. Notable is his preference for the popular at his time mad scenes, with fragile female figures as heroines of his operas, with Norma being the utterly tragic romantic heroine. Bellini's consistency in the service of the tragic opera genre, ranks him among the leading Italian romantic opera composers.

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