Bellini - Beatrice di Tenda / Daniel Schmid - Gruberova, Volle, Kaluza - Viotti - Zurich OperaTodays audiences often find it difficult to comprehend what makes Vincenzo Bellinis operas remarkable. Works like Beatrice di Tenda were not rediscovered and staged until the second half of the 20th century. Bellini's credo was, "I want to move to tears .". This sympathetic treatment of the text led his contemporaries to describe Bellinis music as filosofica. Even Richard Wagner acknowledged this when he said, "Bellinis music comes from the heart and