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Opera on 3: From the Met: Bellini's Norma

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From the Met: Bellini's Norma

16/12/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, From the Met: Bellini's Norma

From the Met: Bellini's Norma with Angela Meade and Joseph Calleja.

From the Met: Bellini's Norma with sopranos Angela Meade and Jamie Barton, and tenor Joseph Calleja. Joseph Colaneri conducts the Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra.

Bellini's masterpiece, Norma, from the Metropolitan Opera House, New York. Angela Meade leads the cast as the Druid priestess, Norma, with Jamie Barton as her arch-rival, Adalgisa, and star tenor Joseph Calleja as Pollione, Norma's unfaithful lover. The opera is an archetypal situation: a powerful woman compromises her ideals for love, only to find herself betrayed by her lover. Bellini's score and deep understanding of the human voice combine sublime melodies with vocal challenge and dramatic power. Joseph Colaneri conducts the Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra.

Presented by Mary Jo Heath with commentator Ira Siff.

Norma ..... Angela Meade (soprano)
Adalgisa ..... Jamie Barton (soprano)
Pollione ..... Joseph Calleja (tenor)
Oroveso ..... Matthew Rose (bass)
Metropolitan Opera House Chorus and Orchestra
Joseph Colaneri (conductor).

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