Norma - Vincenzo Bellini

[@raycornford283]

Wonderful performance of one of my favourite operas, Bravo!

[@emitch9213]

When to have seen and heard Montserrat Caballe perform her Norma, I know she continues to remain unmatched for a very long time as Bellini's Norma.

[@gianlucamattei264]

Meravigliose edizione bellissima regia scene costumi originale e tecnologica insieme del grande regista Federico tiezzi questa regia della Norma di Bellini è davvero meravigliosa con dei costumi davvero spettacolari che io ebbi la fortuna di vedere dal vivo anche tanti anni fa❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@robertohiriart7341]

Extraordinaria versión de Norma ! Ella es armoniosa y con una voz dulce a la vez que con mucho carácter....me encanta !

[@RachetUp]

I absolutely loved this performance of "Norma", at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, with its outstanding chorus and orchestar, and sterling performances by: Norma : the late Daniella Dessi Pollione: Fabio Armiliato Adalgisa: Kate Aldrich Oroveso: Rafal Siwek Flavio: Antonello Ceron Clotilde: Marie Luce Erard I especially loved Maine and America's own Kate Aldrich as Adalgisa. Brava!

[@therealrealludwigvanbeethoven]

A truly brilliant, grandiose, and scintillating performance---bravo!

[@esterbruno8604]

Trovo fantastica la Dessì come Norma! Grande Daniela! 😍👏

[@AlejandroOscarPrietoChadad]

Es una pena que nos haya dejado tan pronto. Grande Daniella!!

[@vincenzoazzarello6447]

Dessì merita di essere ricordata come una Norma tra le più credibili di questi ultimi anni!

[@micheljeanson4878]

La Dessi n'est pas à la hauteur de ce chef d'œuvre. Écoutez Montserat Caballe , écoutez Ghena Dimitrov voila des voix des sopranos à la hauteur du rôle, de Bellini. Dessi NON .

[@paolocambriotto3397]

Grande artista

[@aneraadamik8089]

Bravi!

[@LeSopraniste]

Divina Dessì!!!

[@nldm8511]

Maravilloso y hermoso, honor a mi primer nombre Norma Linda 👏👏

[@АлександрЯрков-ш2з]

Bravo bravo bravo genial grandiose music opera

[@aileenteo7027]

WOW WOW WOW!!! Awesome!!!

[@remomazzetti8757]

Norma does not leave her children to Adalgisa: she leaves them in the care of her father Oroveso.

[@1947Rogerio]

At least in others performances it is that what happens. In addition, the libretto is clear about that. This performance exhibits breathtaking voices; unfortunately, this becoming almost universal way to dress the performers with funny/modern costumes... leaves much to be desired (in my opinion, of course). Opera is not only music (Orch. & singing) but it is theater/acting as well, and as such the costumes should transport us to the time when the drama is unfolding. But worse than that was (as I saw in an alive performance) wireless microphones stuck close to the singers mouth... I confess that NORMA, SAMSON ET DALILA, AÏDA, FAUST & MEFISTOFELE is my Pentalogy. The DVD with the last Opera, sung by Samuel Ramey in the title role (DVD, edited in 1989, with the alive performance from San Francisco Opera House, is out of this world). Sorry to bore you. Best wishes for 2021.

[@arnoldamaral7406]

@@1947Rogerio Your not boring at all my friend. 🇫🇷🎼🍷🎶💙 Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@1947Rogerio]

@@arnoldamaral7406 Thank you. You are very kind. Keep well and very far from that awful Sars-Cov-2. Hugs

[@mucitta]

She asks Adalgisa to take care of her children in their wonderful duet. At the end Norma begs Oroveso NOT TO KILL THEM, since she is aware of how cruel the Gauls could be with those poor kids, whose only fault was to be born out of the illicit liaison between a priestess and a Roman.

[@normarussoguerrera3968]

Meu nome é Norna ,amei tudo ,muito bom

[@gabrielmourad6667]

Tô aqui por causa do Machado de Assis 😁

[@ariasemusicaslegendadas7657]

Em Brás Cubas ele menciona essa ópera, eu li essa parte recentemente.

[@fernandofernando2977]

Una de la mas grandes obras del bel canto-

[@vasileandreica7272]

Rafal Siwak (Oroveso) is very good :)

[@baudolino1100]

merci, merci, merci!

[@lucianosantilli38]

Il Comunale di Bologna e' uno dei tre migliori teatri d'opera italiani, fra i migliori anche in Europa, perche' mai e' tanto poco considerato?

[@hada9568]

Mi manchi ancora tu, Dani.

[@gianlucamattei264]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@1968KWT]

Premiered #otd in 1831 🌹🌹🌹

[@FredONeil1]

Wobble wobble

[@arnoldamaral3814]

She's horrible!!!!

[@eiriniseltsika8697]

NORMA=CALLAS ❤

[@MySensualWorld]

Why are some of the romans sitting on the floor? There is so many things wrong with production, one could write a book.

[@georgiargi1]

some people see everything black...

[@BellaFirenze]

Before you write the book... There ARE so many things... Grammar is important, particularly if you're going to publish. In answer to your question, they are sitting on the floor because they can. Simple, really. Greetings from Florence, Italy.

[@Bacchusmbt]

They leave their children to Oroveso, Norma’s father, not to Adalgisa.

[@SusannaBrennt]

well, there will probably never be another CALLAS - but should this opera therefore vanish from the theatres all over the world? let them try ;-)

[@lenapietersen4229]

Who is the rest of the cast? Conductor?

[@BellaFirenze]

Bologna, Teatro Comunale April 29, 2008 Norma : Daniela Dessì Adalgisa : Kate Aldrich Pollione : Fabio Armiliato Oroveso : Rafal Siwek Clotilde : Marie Luce Erard Flavio : Antonello Ceron Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna Conductor : Evelino Pido

[@ichego3]

Casta diva

[@MySensualWorld]

Horrible modern staging and costumes that don’t go with the story at all. Bad vocals and technique. It looks like they may have had bad direction too. Caballe’s 1974 Norma at Orange, France should be required viewing by everyone who ever sees a performance of Norma. Believed by most opera lovers and experts to be perhaps the greatest performance of Norma ever, even Callas thought so.

[@georgiargi1]

can you suggest me a better one please?

[@bartosz9898]

This is better one. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmmrXpqkbdeUf6c

[@vegtamvanderveg]

is she wearing a rubber mask??

[@MySensualWorld]

Why is the opera this long, and one still can’t find Norma’s final aria padre, as well as the ensemble finale. This performance was terrible.

[@micheljeanson4878]

Non e assolutamente una Norma " rilevente " anzi direi che non serve il capolavoro de Bellini. Un tutto mal legato .

[@ЛюбовьКириллова-ъ8я]

Почему первая ария Нормы с браком ?

[@BetuliaLiberata]

Love her voice. Very secure, flexible and penetrating.

[@arnoldamaral3814]

Ugly voice

[@BetuliaLiberata]

@@arnoldamaral3814 I never said anything about tonal beauty. 🤣

[@arnoldamaral3814]

@@BetuliaLiberata Word 😂😂😂😂🇫🇷. Arnold Bourbon Amaral

[@mugrad25]

i miss dessi...

[@jjbjhvbjhvjhgfjlhvhl]

Missing a big chunk of Casta Diva

[@PetervanNeijhof]

this is due to copyright issues

[@mokozu2291]

nice but it's not maria callas

[@robertohiriart7341]

Callas grita un poco en algunas arias...esta no ¡!

[@anatoliasvoice4448]

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[@remomazzetti8757]

Thank God it's not Callas with her incessant wobble.

[@CallasCarey]

@@robertohiriart7341 Tu si que gritas con tus comentarios idiotas. Callas nunca se tragó el sonido como esta señora que es bastante aburridísima y amplificada. De verdad que poca inteligencia hay en el mundo.

[@CallasCarey]

@@remomazzetti8757 Thank God is not you with your nasty comments. Callas wobble in Norma, when? This boring Norma was wobbling nonstop for 2 hours. Nobody will remember this woman. Callas will forever be remembered and praised. So man, clean your ears a little cuz you're deaf.

[@CallasCarey]

Viva Callas, the one and only true Norma. This is boring as hell! Bring back the good all days not these amplification horrors. Where is the legato and rubato? It's just like a computer music machine.

[@MySensualWorld]

Caballe’s orange performance was the greatest Norma, even Callas thought so. There voices makes one ache to hear Caballe Callas and other golden age singers. These modern uniforms take so much away from the performance, the chorus looks bored and out of character, and the bald baritone doesn’t look right or sound that great. She ddn’t even try to take the high note at all much less in pianissimo before Casta Diva started. sacrasm.

[@kbhprinsesse]

@@MySensualWorld unfortunately Caballé's voice wasn't heavy enough for the part, and she couldn't honour its technical difficulties either. She couldn't trill. Comparing her to Callas doesn't make sense, no matter what Callas herself may have said.

[@liguten]

@@kbhprinsesse Caballe fut la plus émouvante Norma jamais entendue sur scène!

[@kbhprinsesse]

@@liguten surely you must be joking! There's nothing "émouvante" about singing almost all high notes pianissimo or leaving out half the consonants.

[@liguten]

@@kbhprinsesse I DON'T SORRY PRINCESS

[@antoniofioravanzo704]

Belle voci ma troppo scura la scena,il vestito della Dessi sembra che sia(incinta)

[@bunkaunk]

Sorry but she does not pass the Casta Diva test. It is all about breath control, and she breathes too often. When you do that you loose the otherworldlyness of the aria. It is just another singer struggling to get through it. Compare this with Caballe, who nails it at the Bolshoi in 74 (on youtube) and you will see. This singer also tends to swoop up to notes rather than just hit them. I give her partial credit: some places she hits each of the fast notes but unfortunately she tends to slur them in most places hoping her vibrato will make them sound like separate notes. The rest of the cast is no better. A singer who can handle the coloratura sections of an opera is scarce beyond belief today. I am sorry to say that this is not the NORMA we have been hoping for. The last great Norma I know of was Caballe in the 70's. Even Sutherland had trouble with it (although not nearly as bad as this lady), and Sutherland didn't have the passion. Haven't seen Dessi do it. Maybe there is hope there. Okay, it's a tough role, maybe the toughest, and few are able to do it. But if you play in the big league you have to be judged by big league standards.