Bellini: Norma (Critical Edition by Roger Parker) Marina Rebeka, Karine Deshayes, Luciano Ganci

• Felice Romani (1788 - 1865), Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835): Norma, Act 1:
• 1 Romani, Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Sinfonia 05:38
• Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, Act 1:
• 2 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Ite sul colle, o Druidi 08:22
• 3 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Svanir le voci 03:00
• 4 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Meco all'altar di Venere 02:35
• 5 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Odi?... I suoi riti 01:34
• 6 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Me protegge, me difende 02:53
• 7 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Norma viene 04:10
• 8 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Sediziose voci 04:20
• 9 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Casta Diva 06:48
• 10 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Fine al rito 01:33
• 11 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Ah! bello a me ritorna 04:55
• 12 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Sgombra è la sacra selva 05:29
• 13 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Eccola! va, mi lascia 01:35
• 14 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Va, crudele 05:10
• 15 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Vieni in Roma 03:43
• 16 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Vanne, e li cela entrambi 04:31
• 17 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Adalgisa 03:29
• 18 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Oh! rimembranza! 04:48
• 19 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Ah! sì, fa core e abbracciami 03:46
• 20 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Ma dì... l'amato giovane 02:59
• 21 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Oh! di qual sei tu vittima 05:06
• 22 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Perfido! - Or basti 01:29
• 23 Bellini: Norma, Act 1: Vanne, si mi lascia, indegno 02:43
• Felice Romani , Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, Act 2:
• 24 Romani, Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Introduzione 04:56
• Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, Act 2:
• 25 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Dormono entrambi... 04:49
• 26 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Olà!... Clotilde! 00:49
• 27 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Me chiami, o Norma!... 02:41
• 28 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Deh! con te, con te li prendi... 03:30
• 29 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Mira, o Norma 03:38
• 30 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Cedi... deh! cedi 01:05
• 31 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Sì, fino all'ore estreme 02:01
• 32 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Non parti?... 04:27
• 33 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Guerrieri! a voi venirne 01:46
• 34 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Ah! del Tebro al giogo indegno 02:41
• 35 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Ei tornerà... 04:04
• 36 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Squilla il bronzo del Dio! 01:45
• 37 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Guerra, guerra! 01:50
• 38 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Né compi il rito, o Norma 03:53
• 39 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: In mia man alfin tu sei 05:32
• 40 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Gia mi pasco ne tuoi sguardi 02:21
• 41 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Dammi quel ferro! 03:34
• 42 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Qual cor tradisti, qual cor perdesti 04:58
• 43 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Norma!... deh! Norma! scolpati... 02:14
• 44 Bellini: Norma, Act 2: Deh! non volerli vittime 04:36
• Total Runtime 02:37:46

Info for Bellini: Norma (Critical Edition by Roger Parker)

An exceptional studio recording featuring Marina Rebeka, Karine Deshayes, Luciano Ganci, Marko Mimica, Anta Jankovska, and Gustavo De Gennaro. Conducted by John Fiore, with the Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid, this album presents a new critical edition of the opera, prepared by Roger Parker for Casa Ricordi.

The album includes a musicological essay and the full libretto in Italian and English. This recording offers a fresh perspective with Marina Rebeka’s performance of Norma’s challenging aria “Casta Diva” in G major, and features an alternate ending to the Act Two chorus that revives music from the Sinfonia. With these and other elements, this album brings new insights and colors to the beloved opera.

Notes on the new edition: "In the autograph, Norma's famous preghiera is written in G major, a key that would make extreme demands on most sopranos who sing the role. In this recording Marina Rebeka sings the aria in G major.

The final part of the Act One finale clearly underwent significant change, probably after the first performance; the first Ricordi vocal score and various manuscript sources have a different version of the last part of the number, with an altered disposition of the vocal parts, some variations in the melodic material and no choral intervention. This recording features the version with chorus.

[there is also the] alternative ending to the coro 'Guerra, Guerra' in Act Two. Although, again, the version in the autograph is likely to be Bellini's last thought on the matter, the alternative ending, with the return of music from the Sinfonia, opens up a vital new colour in the opera's final number, and this is the version used in the present recording." (Roger Parker)

Marina Rebeka, soprano
Karine Deshayes, mezzo-soprano
Luciano Ganci, tenor
Marko Mimica, bass-baritone
Anta Jankovska, soprano
Gustavo de Gennaro, tenor
Orchestra Teatro Real Madrid
John Fiore, conductor

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