Organization

Singer

Tenor

Albrecht Kludszuweit

Flavio

Stage director

Tobias Hoheisel

Imogen Kogge

Set designer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Wolfgang Göbbel

Dramaturge

Christian Schröder

Conductor

Giuliano Carella

Chorus master

Klaas-Jan de Groot

Scenic direction of the recovery

Frédéric Buhr

Carlos Cardoso

Pollione

Bass

Almas Svilpa

Oroveso

Soprano

Yolanda Auyanet

Norma

Bettina Ranch

Adalgisa

Heejin Kim

Clotilde

Wolfram-Maria Märtig

Aalto-Musiktheater Essen

Orchestra

Essener Philharmoniker

Italian

Essen

Germany

Aalto Theatre

Norma Bellini

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German

Approved

NORMA
Tragic opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini
Poetry by Felice Romani

With "Norma" Bellini achieved the perfection of the bel canto opera: the perfect interplay of virtuoso vocal art, melodic inventiveness and dramatic action. The focus is on one of the greatest title heroines in opera literature - a woman who is torn between public expectations and her own longings. After "La Straniera" in the 2013/2014 season, there is another opera by the Sicilian composer on the program of the Aalto Music Theater. Vincenzo Bellini had already celebrated success with the premiere of "La sonnambula" in 1831 and was then considered a rising star in the operatic sky. The premiere of "Norma" at the end of the same year at La Scala in Milan initially irritated the audience:

But soon the opera's success story was unstoppable - and since then hardly any of the great bel canto singers has missed the equally demanding and rewarding title role with her famous entrance aria "Casta Diva". The subject goes back to the tragedy of the same name by the French author Alexandre Soumet: Gaul, occupied by the Romans, is preparing for a retaliatory attack and is waiting for a divine sign. But the druid and high priestess Norma finds herself in a conflict. She, who is bound by a vow of chastity, leads a secret double life: Norma has two children with the Roman Pollione, whom she keeps hidden from the world. But Pollione has already turned away from her and has fallen in love with the young novice Adalgisa.

English

Norma by Bellini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Tobias Hoheisel, Imogen Kogge,, Conductor Giuliano Carella, Wolfram-Maria Märtig, Aalto Theatre, Essen, Germany

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