Cultural References
The 2009 film The Young Victoria includes an episode in which Prince Albert is told that I puritani is the favorite opera of Queen Victoria (which indeed it was), who recently came to the British throne, and, in courting her, he claims that it is his favorite too. Victoria, however, sees through his gambit – but in the end agrees to marry him anyway. The film also includes a short scene from the opera.
In the film Fitzcarraldo, the cast of I puritani was on the main character's boat, singing "A te, O cara" (from Act I, Scene 3) on his triumphal return to Iquitos.
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