NORMA: L'OPERA DE LONDRES

 

Genre: Opera

Quality: Digital

 


Synopsis

Price: $16

 

Presentations Sunday and Thursday

2016-10-23, 13h      2016-10-27, 19h

 

Norma - Royal Opera House

Version originale en italien avec sous-titres en français
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 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.

Release Date:

October 23, 2016