Organization

Singer

Soprano

Mariella Devia

Norma

Carmela Remigio

Adalgisa

Tenor

Stefan Pop

Pollione

Bass

Luca Tittoto

Oroveso

Anna Bordignon

Clotilde

Conductor

Riccardo Frizza

Stage director

Kara Walker

Set designer

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Vilmo Furian

Chorus master

Claudio Marino Moretti

Emanuele Giannino

Flavio

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Norma
Tragedia lirica in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835)
Libretto by Felice Romani after the play 'Norma, ou L'infanticide' (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet
First performance in Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 26 December 1831

Teatro alla Scala

Norma Bellini

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Norma is Vincenzo Bellini’s third last opera, and probably also the most often performed (the famous aria ‘Casta diva’ has been a test bench for the greatest sopranos in the world). A two-act opera to a libretto by Felice Romani, it debuted at La Scala in December 1831; it combines a dramatic love story – between the protagonist and the proconsul Pollion, and an equally tragic political situation between the conquered (the Gauls, with Norma as their high-priestess), and the conquerors (the Roman occupation army). With a succession of coup-de-théâtre, in the final climax the heroine, realising she betrayed her own people out of love, sentences herself to the stake, followed by Pollione who is abased but admires the nobility of her gesture. The set for this production is by a contemporary artist and is a special project of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

Norma by Bellini, From (2018/2018), Directed by Kara Walker,, Conductor Riccardo Frizza, Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy

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