Usual Name | Vincenzo Bellini |
Alternative Spellings | Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini, Vincenzo Paellini, Vincenzo Billini, Vincenzio Bellini |
On Wikipedia | Vincenzo_Bellini |
Dedicated pieces |
Franz Liszt: Recollection, S. 204
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Links | RISM person , VIAF , GND |
Title | Subname | Catalogue | Key | Year | Type |
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Norma | 1831 | Opera | |||
Adelson and Salvini | Opera Semiseria | ||||
Bianca and Fernando | 1828 | Melodrama | |||
The Pirate | Melodramma in due atti | Melodrama | |||
The Foreign Woman | Opera | ||||
Zaira | Tragedia lirica in due atti | 1829 | Tragédie en musique (Musical Tragedy) | ||
The Capulets and the Montagues | Tragédie en musique (Musical Tragedy) | ||||
The Sleepwalker | Melodramma semiseria in due atti | 1831 | Opera Semiseria | ||
Beatrice di Tenda | Tragedia lirica in due atti | Opera | |||
The Puritans | Melodramma serio in tre atti | 1835 | Opera | ||
Missa #1 | E Minor | Mass | |||
Missa #2 | G Minor | Mass | |||
Organ Sonata | G Major | Sonata | |||
Oboe Concerto | E-flat Major | 1825 | Concerto | ||
Capriccio in Do minore | Sinfonia per studio | C Minor | 1822 | Caprice (Capriccio) | |
Beautiful moon, dappling with silver | Arietta | A-flat Major | |||
Six Early Songs | Song(s) | ||||
Tre Ariette | Song(s) | ||||
Sei Ariette | Song(s) | ||||
Per pietà, bell'idol mio | C Minor | Song(s) | |||
Salve Regina | Hymn | ||||
Symphony | D Major | 1825 | Symphony | ||
Symphony | E-flat Major | 1823 | Symphony |
The priestess Norma leads her people in a prayer for peace. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role in Bellini's masterpiece, with the Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House conducted by Antonio Pappano, recorded September 2016. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/norma Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece Norma had its premiere at La Scala, Milan, on Boxing Day 1831. After a muted initial response the opera quickly became popular, and is now a mainstay of the repertory. Norma is perhaps most acclaimed as a vehicle for the lead soprano, most famously now by such 20th-century greats as Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballé and Joan Sutherland. Indeed, Bellini provides some astonishing vocal fireworks for his title character – most famously ‘Casta diva’, Norma’s Act I hymn to the chaste moon, and Act II’s ‘Dormono entrambi’, as she contemplates the unthinkable act of killing her children. But the opera’s dramatic potency rests in its breathtaking ensembles, most strikingly in Norma’s duets with Pollione and Adalgisa, the Act I trio ‘Vanne, sì: mi lascia, indegno’ and the blistering Act II finale. This new production of Norma was The Royal Opera’s first in nearly thirty years. Directing is Àlex Ollé, of the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus, reunited with the creative team behind his acclaimed production of Oedipe. They give Norma a contemporary setting against a backdrop of a cruel civil war, and focus on the opera’s exploration of the conflict between an individual’s own desires and those of her society – and of religion as a force for unity and for destruction.
Maria Callas..........Norma 1 9 5 4 Casta Diva Norma Tullio Serafin Milano
Joan Sutherland sings "Casta diva" from "Norma" composed by Vincenzo Bellini Joan Sutherland - soprano The Elizabethan Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Bonynge from Sydney Opera House