Bellini: Norma

Release Date: 10th Mar 2023
Catalogue No: 5419734463
Label: Warner Classics

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Bellini: Norma

Maria Callas (soprano), Franco Corelli (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano), Nicola Zaccaria (bass), Piero de Palma (tenor), Edda Vincenzi, Teatro alla Scala (opera company)
Tullio Serafin

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This 1960 Norma represents Maria Callas’s final complete documented version of her signature role. Seven recordings of the opera exist with Callas (1950-60), plus numerous snippets and scenes captured between 1949 and 1965. With 89 performances, Norma is Callas’s most performed part; certainly no other 20th-century diva is more closely associated with the role, and no one since has even remotely eclipsed Callas in the perception of opera lovers.

Countless moments, too numerous to catalogue here, raise this Callas Norma to the level of genius. From a haunting ‘Casta Diva’ to a final scene of incomparable grandeur and sweep, in every startlingly brilliant detail, Callas is Norma.

Bellini: Norma

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