Research Catalog

Title

Norma / Bellini ; [libretto, Felice Romani].

Author

Bellini, Vincenzo, 1801-1835

Publication

London, England : Decca, [2013], ℗2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Romani, Felice, 1788-1865
• Jo, Sumi
• Bartoli, Cecilia
• Nikiteanu, Liliana
• Osborn, John (Tenor)
• Macias, Reinaldo
• Pertusi, Michele
• Antonini, Giovanni, 1965-
• Minasi, Riccardo
• Biondi, Maurizio
• International Chamber Vocalists, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
• Scintilla (Musical group), performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf

Description

2 audio discs (143 min., 11 sec.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

"In this complete studio recording of a newly prepared critical edition -- the first on period instruments -- Giovanni Antonini and Cecilia Bartoli reveal Norma's authentic pre-Romantic roots and return to Bellini's original conception. The role of Norma was written for Giuditta Pasta, who sang what today's listeners would consider to be mezzo-soprano roles, while Adalgisa was conceived for a light silvery soprano. With Cecilia Bartoli and Sumi Jo heard here for the first time on record together, this iconic opera has been restored as Bellini originally intended."--Container.

Subject

• Operas

Note

• Decca: 478 3517 (478 5480--478 5481).
• Tragic opera in two acts.
• Performed in the new critical edition by Riccardo Minasi and Maurizio Biondi.
• Compact discs.
• Program notes by Ceciia Bartoli, Markus Wyler, and Charles Season, and synopsis, in English, French, and German, and libretto with English, French, and German translations (198 p. : ill., ports.) bound in container.

Event (note)

• Recorded Apr. and Sept. 2011 and Jan. 2013, Evangelisch-reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zürich-Oberstrass, Switzerland.

Language (note)

• Sung in Italian.

LCCN

• 00028947835172
• 028947835172

OCLC

• ocn841912935
• 841912935
• SCSB-13623535

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries