George Hall, translator of ENO’s first ever production of the Bellini opera, faced many linguistic challenges in his quest for clarity Opera in 19th-century Italy achieved the feat of being both high ...

Richard Bonynge has been here before - at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre, on the podium, conducting the orchestra for a Vancouver Opera production of Bellini's Norma. The first time was in 1963, when ...

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You've got to admit that the Met had a lot of guts to dedicate this season's performances of Vincenzo Bellini's NORMA (libretto by Felice Romani) to the memory of Maria Callas on the 100th anniversary ...

Norma an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma by Alexandre Soumet. It was first produced at La Scala in Milan on December 26, 1831. The opera is ...

Italian opera star Cecilia Bartoli helps the work to gleam anew. Bellini's Norma is an extraordinary piece. A high point in the bel canto tradition, the 1831 opera is as important in the historical ...

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Norma is an opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani. It was first produced at La Scala in Milan on December 26, 1831. The opera is regarded as a leading example of the bel ...

In the recent film The Iron Lady, Margaret Thatcher leaves Number 10 for the last time to the sound of “Casta Diva” from Bellini’s Norma. The filmmakers obviously saw parallels between Norma, a ...