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CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Vincenzo Bellini |
 | | Less than a year later came Norma; its sop. |
| | title-role was first sung by Pasta and succeeding exponents have included Grisi, Tietjens, Lilli Lehmann, Ponselle, Callas, and Sutherland. |
| | His last opera, I Puritani, was written for Paris (on the advice of Rossini) where its first cast in 1835 was led by Grisi, Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache. |
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