Bellini: Norma (Complete opera recorded in 2015)

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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (Complete opera recorded in 2015)
Gran Teatre del Liceu / Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Gubanova, Raymond Aceto / Renato Palumbo (cond)

[ C Major DVD / 2 DVD ]

Release Date: Monday 10 October 2016

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Rated: G - Films, Videos, and Publications Classification Act 1993Suitable for General Audiences

David Korins, set designer

Jessica Jahn, costume designer

D.M. Wood, lighting designer

"If we weep from emotion on hearing it, it's nothing to be ashamed of" Richard Wagner on Bellini's most famous opera Norma, the most successful work by the last and greatest composer of bel canto. This new production of Norma, directed by Grammy Award-nominated opera, theatre and film director Kevin Newbury and starring Sondra Radvanovsky as a "powerful, elegant" Norma (New York Times) and Gregory Kunde as Pollione, is "something very special. The word 'historic' is used perhaps a little too often but tonight there really is no other adjective to describe the sensational performances offered to us by Sondra Radvanovsky and Gregory unde." (operatraveller.com)

Radvanovsky's performance as Norma has been the fixed point of Newbury's staging as it has travelled from San Francisco where it opened in September 2014, to Barcelona, and on to Chicago and Toronto, and was enthusiastically received from the off: British Opera magazine described her as "fearless in scaling the heights of this bel canto challenge. Her range of colours, from smoky to crystalline, and her authority [...] were wondrous and energizing, starting with a consummately phrased 'Casta Diva'".

Picture format: 1080i High Definition

Sound format: PCM Stereo / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1

Region code: 0 (worldwide)

Subtitles: Italian, German, English, Catalan, French, Spanish, Korean, Japanese

Running time: 176 mins

"Renato Palumbo directs a straightforward reading of the score, and the orchestra play for him in their most Italianate manner. The chorus also sounds excellent. The camerawork is mostly fine, though is too often distracted by a bizarre shot of the back of someone's head from offstage. The surround sound is also good, if a little too forward-focused. This probably now takes the lead as the finest version of Norma available on film." MusicWeb Feb 2017