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Norma / Vincenzo Bellini.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Verrett, Shirley, performer, performer.
Cossutta, Carlo, performer, performer.
Obrazt︠s︡ova, Elena, 1939-2015, performer, performer.
Plishka, Paul, 1941- performer, performer.
Maag, Peter, conductor, conductor.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Language:
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
Live sound recordings.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Operas.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (2 hr., 34 min., 26 sec.))
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1979]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
audio file streaming audio file
Summary:
Norma (Shirley Verrett) is the high priestess of the Druids and daughter of their leader Oroveso (Paul Plishka). But she is also in love with Pollione (Carlo Cossuta), proconsul of their Roman oppressors, and secretly has had two children with him. Matters get even more complicated when another priestess, Adalgisa (Elena Obraztsova), innocently confesses to Norma that she has fallen love with Pollione, who in turns wants to take Adalgisa back to Rome with him. Bellini's exquisite music conveys every nuance of the characters' emotional dilemma, all the way through to the drama's shattering conclusion.
Contents:
Sinfonia
Ite sul colle, o Druidi
Dell'aura tua profetica
Svanir le voci!
Meco all'altar di Venere
Odi? I suoi ritti a compiere Norma
Me protegge, me di fende un poter maggior di loro
Norma viene: Le cinge la chioma
Sediziose voci
Casta diva
Fine al rito, e il sacro bosco
Sgombra è la sacra selva
Deh! proteggimi, o Dio!
Eccola! Va, mi lascia
Va, crudele
Vieni in Roma, ah, vieni, o cara
Vanne, e li cela entrambi
Adalgisa! Alma, costanza
Oh! Rimembranza!
Ah! Si, facore e abbracciami
Ma di' l'amato giovane
Oh non tremare
Oh! Di qual sei tu vittima
Introduzione
Dormono entrambi
Teneri, teneri figli
Me chiami, o Norma!
Deh! Conte, conte il prendi
Mira, o Norma, a'tuoi ginocchi
Sì, fino all'ore estreme
Non partì?
Guerrieri! A voi venirne
Ah! Del Tebro al giogo indegno
Ei tornerà
Squilla il bronzo del Dio!
Guerra! Guerra!
Né compi il rito, o Norma?
In mia man alfin tu sei
Dammi quel ferro
Qual cor tradisti, qual cor perdesti
Norma! Deh! Norma, scòlpati
Deh! Non volerli vittime.
Participant:
Shirley Verrett ; Carlo Cossutta ; Elena Obraztsova ; Paul Plishka ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Peter Maag, conductor.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1979 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Duration: 2 hr., 34 min., 26 sec.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859397232
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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