Bellini - Norma - Finale of Act 1 - Meade, Barton, Antonenko

[@g_vezz]

Fabulous performance. Terrific cast...I was happy to see the new production as well...

[@seannayeates333]

Bad Acting

[@seannayeates333]

Terrific Cast but terrible singing

[@g_vezz]

Very good and nice and wild the way Norma should be..

[@seannayeates333]

It is a joke

[@save312]

Vibrato stretto fascia acuta per niente a fuoco con acuto indietro e gridacchiato

[@ransomcoates546]

Why restore all the rather tedious repetitions in the finale and then cut the exciting stretta, especially if the soprano holds the D through it?

[@harpguy18]

I think it's an audio mistake.

[@seannayeates333]

Me too

[@Phaedragon]

I'm sorry, but that Norma sounds wild, I mean beyond the character's hysteria. Not bel canto at all.

[@seannayeates333]

I Agree

[@draganvidic2039]

Can't help it but love Angela Meade despite her sometimes rabbit-like vibrato. Maybe too healthy sounding for this part?

[@JK-xz6mj]

Rabbit-like? It's more like drunkenly shooting off a machine gun in all directions...

[@Eiswirth1]

Think he means "rapid-like."

[@draganvidic2039]

Suth Pav No. Like a rabbit.

[@danawinsor1380]

Gee, I've never heard a rabbit sing opera (sorry).

[@fballiache]

Bugs Bunny did

[@robert111k]

Omg.

[@ryan.engstrom]

Are you kidding me with this?? This is a joke right? Wow

[@jeffreymiller4814]

Good lord…

[@melbapatti]

Oh dear.

[@highcking]

Meade and Barton are a spectacular combination. Tenor is way out of his league.

[@yahirdavion7479]

instablaster

[@mavoisine3]

Can't wait till Netrebko tackles this role. She will be fabulous in it.

[@wilsonwatt9283]

This is not Bellini. The conductor apparently thinks he is conducting a Mascagni opera and the singers apparently are auditioning for some 20th Century verismo work. There is no legato, no integrated line, and certainly no care to bring the emotion and the melody into a coherent statement. Pathetic, especially because this is what the greatest opera house is doing to demean Bellini.

[@seannayeates333]

Thumbs down

[@EOCC13]

Flimsy

[@vanmusician]

Yuck! Like a bunch of hysterical chickens! LOL I guess I'm spoiled - was at Joan Sutherland's very first performance.

[@nathandavis3002]

Lucky you certainly are. Words can not describe how jealous I am. Angela is horrible here! Wrong type of voice, with NO technique, without even any artistry, expression, or conviction to save it. And her stage "presence" hinders her further. Barton her is good I think. No horne, but still good. Its best not to mention the tenor...

[@WelahHomo87]

Joan and Callas owns this role . Meade shouldn't sing things like thid

[@seannayeates333]

More like Hen's

[@thomasdahlen2158]

Angela Meade Will not be rembered as one of The Great Normas.Barton average.

[@seannayeates333]

She is an awful singer

[@WelahHomo87]

She is God awful. Sung so bad. No emotion whatsoever and crappy Bel canto technique

[@seannayeates333]

Tell me about it

[@WelahHomo87]

@@seannayeates333 this is problem with modern singers. No Bel Canto technique at all