Bellini – Norma (Antonio Pappano) Royal Opera House
This new production of Norma is The Royal Opera’s first in nearly thirty years. Directing is Àlex Ollé, of the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus, reunited with the creative team behind his acclaimed production of Oedipe.
NORMA -Sonya Yoncheva
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Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece Norma had its premiere at La Scala, Milan, on Boxing Day 1831. After a muted initial response the opera quickly became popular, and is now a mainstay of the repertory.
NORMA -Sonya Yoncheva
Norma is perhaps most acclaimed as a vehicle for the lead soprano, and indeed Bellini provides some astonishing vocal fireworks for his title character – most famously ‘Casta diva’, Norma’s Act I hymn to the chaste moon, and Act II’s ‘Dormono entrambi’, as she contemplates the unthinkable act of killing her children. But the opera’s dramatic potency rests in its breathtaking ensembles, most strikingly in Norma’s duets with Pollione and Adalgisa, the Act I trio ‘Vanne, sì: mi lascia, indegno’ and the blistering Act II finale.
This new production of Norma is The Royal Opera’s first in nearly thirty years. Directing is Àlex Ollé, of the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus, reunited with the creative team behind his acclaimed production of Oedipe.
Bellini – Norma (Antonio Pappano) Roal Opera House
They give Norma a contemporary setting against a backdrop of a cruel civil war, and focus on the opera’s exploration of the conflict between an individual’s own desires and those of her society – and of religion as a force for unity and for destruction.
Why all great sopranos are drawn to Bellini’s Norma (The Royal Opera)
Bellini – Norma (Antonio Pappano) Roal Opera House
La Scala NORMA – MARIA CALLAS :
Opera in four acts by Vincenzo Bellini.
Libretto by Felice Romani.
Based on the play by Alexandre Soumet.
Norma – MARIA CALLAS soprano.
Pollione – FRANCO CORELLI tenor.
Adalgisa – CHRISTA LUDWIG mezzo soprano.
Oroveso – NICOLA ZACCARIA bass.
Clotilde – EDDA VINCENZI soprano.
Flavio – PIERO DE PALMA tenor.
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Opera House, Milan.
TULLIO SERAFIN conductor.
Chorus master Norberto Mola.
Bellini – Norma (Antonio Pappano) Roal Opera House
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