From the astonishment at the success of Il pirata to the report of the strenuous negotiations with the Paris Opéra for the composition of a new work, the letters proposed in this digital collection allow the reader to follow the artistic path of Bellini, the development of a coherent aesthetic conception based on a high awareness of the value of his own art, his difficult confrontation with the economic system and the competitive environment of the Italian and European musical theater in the early nineteenth century.

• Clear facets
• Senders
  
  Giacomo Puccini (39)
  Enrico De Leva (2)
  Alessandro Civardi (1)
  Alfred Brüggemann (1)
  Otmar Nussio (1)
  
• Addresees
  
  Carlo Clausetti (15)
  Tito II Ricordi (14)
  Armando Morlacchi (4)
  Nino Costa (3)
  Renzo Valcarenghi (3)
  Ricordi (2)
  Cesare Blanc (1)
  Giulio Ricordi (1)
  Guido Valcarenghi (1)
  Luigi Bai (1)
  
• Origins
  
  Viareggio, Lucca (20)
  Torre del Lago, Lucca (8)
  Roma (3)
  Firenze (2)
  Napoli (2)
  Vienna, Austria (2)
  Acquapendente, Viterbo (1)
  Amburgo, Germania (1)
  Coblenza, Germania (1)
  Interlaken, Svizzera (1)
  Lugano, Svizzera (1)
  Monte Carlo, Principato di Monaco (1)
  Ripatransone, Ascoli Piceno (1)
  
• Destinations (Milano)
  
  Milano (44)
  
• Named people
  
  Giovacchino Forzano (7)
  Carlo Clausetti (4)
  Renzo Valcarenghi (4)
  Tito II Ricordi (4)
  Iginia Puccini (3)
  Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2)
  Joseph Gregor (2)
  Maurice Vaucaire (2)
  Riccardo Schnabl Rossi (2)
  Vanni Marcoux (2)
  Alessandro Bonci (1)
  Arrigo Boito (1)
  Bote & Bock (1)
  Carlo Bersezio (1)
  Edoardo Augusto Berta (1)
  Emil Berté (1)
  Eugenio Tornaghi (1)
  Gaetano Bavagnoli (1)
  Giovanni Ansaldo (1)
  Giulio Ricordi (1)
  Giuseppe Adami (1)
  Giuseppe Depanis (1)
  Giuseppe Mario Sammarco (1)
  Hans Gregor (1)
  J.A. Van Aalst (1)
  Mario Pasquale Costa (1)
  Nitteti Puccini Marsili (1)
  Parvis (1)
  Raffaele Tenaglia (1)
  Raoul Gunsbourg (1)
  Roberto Moranzoni (1)
  Tristan Bernard (1)
  Vittorio Rota (1)
  
• Named works
  
  Gianni Schicchi (12)
  Il Tabarro (11)
  Suor Angelica (11)
  La Bohème (4)
  Manon Lescaut (4)
  La Fanciulla del West (2)
  La Rondine (2)
  Madama Butterfly (2)
  Turandot (2)
  L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1)
  Le Villi (1)
  Un Ballo in maschera (1)
  Tosca (1)
  
• Named places
  
  Parigi, Francia (4)
  Roma (3)
  Vienna, Austria (3)
  Milano (2)
  Budapest, Ungheria (1)
  Firenze (1)
  Londra, Regno Unito (1)
  Perugia (1)
  Torino (1)
  Viareggio, Lucca (1)
  
• Named theatres
  
  Teatro alla Scala (1)
  
• Topics
  
  music (16)
  personnel (14)
  performance (13)
  shipping (13)
  trip (8)
  payment (6)
  singers (6)
  stagings (6)
  contract (5)
  libretto (5)
  bereavement (3)
  copyright (2)
  musicians (2)
  war (2)
  translation (1)
  
• Tipology
  
  lettera (44)
  
• Subtype (postcard)
  
  postcard (44)
  
• Shelfmark
  
  • Institution
    
  • RISM Sigla