Name: Norma
Start: 2021-03-12
End: 2021-03-12
Location: Teatro Real

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Tenor

Michael Spyres

Pollione

John Osborn

Bass

Roberto Tagliavini

Oroveso

Fernando Radó

Soprano

Yolanda Auyanet

Norma

Hibla Gerzmava

Clémentine Margaine

Adalgisa

Annalisa Stroppa

Fabián Lara

Flavio

Juan Antonio Sanabria

Stage director

Justin Way

Set designer

Charles Edwards

Costume designer

Sue Willmington

Lighting designer

Nicolás Fischtel

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Berna Perles

Clotilde

Choreographer

Jo Meredith

Conductor

Marco Armiliato

Asistente director musical

Jonathan Santagada

Teatro Real de Madrid

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Never before had the taboos relating to female virginity been staged so explicitly as in Italian Romantic opera. Although condemned to ostracism in real life, in bel canto melodrama heroines stand up as transgressors, victims or practisers of pagan rites to simultaneously stimulate the public’s admiration, compassion and terror. The most tragic and demanding from a vocal point of view among them is Norma, opening at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan in 1831. Set during the Roman occupation of Gaul, it includes themes of motherhood, friendship and sisterhood, warmongering and religious fanaticism. Thanks to its legendary beauty and ethereality this combination renews the opera’s appeal generation after generation. Bellini breathed life into his melodies with an unusual dramatic weight which even inspired the admiration of Wagner, who, without doubt, used the embers from the immolation of Norma to light the pyre of Brünnhilde.

Norma by Bellini, Fri 12 Mar 2021, From (2021/2021), Directed by Justin Way,, Conductor Marco Armiliato, Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain

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