Bellini - Norma / Mar?a Callas
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1997-08-19
Music Label: EMI Classics
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- Norma: Sinfonia - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Act One, Scene One: Ite sul colle...Dell'aura tua profetica - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Svanir le voci ! - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Meco all'altar di Venere - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Odi?...I suoi riti a compiere - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Me protegge, me difende - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Norma viene - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Sediziose voci - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Casta Diva - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Fine al rito, e il sacro bosco - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Ah! bello a me ritorna - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Sgombra la sacra selva - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Eccola - va, mi lascia - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Va, crudele - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene One: Vieni in Roma - Orchestra E Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
- Norma: Scene Two: Vanne, e li cela entrambi - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Adalgisa!...Alma, costanza - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Oh, rimembranza - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Ah si, fa core, abbracciami - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Ma di'...l'amato giovine? - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Oh, di qual sei tu vittima - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Perfido!...Or basti! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Vanne, si, mi lascia, indegno - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Act Two, Scene One: Introduzione - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Dormono entrambi! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Ol ! Clotilde! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Mi chiami, o Norma? - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Deh! con te, con te li prendi - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Mira, o Norma - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Cedi...deh cedi! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene One: Si, fino all'ore estreme - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Non parti? - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Guerrieri! a voi venirme - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Two: Ah! del Tebro al giogo indegno - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Ei torner . Si! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Squilla il bronzo del Dio! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Guerra! guerra! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Ne compi il rito, o Norma? - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: In mia man alfin tu sei - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Gi mi pasco ne' tuoi sguardi - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Dammi quel ferro! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Qual cor tradisti - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Norma! deh! Norma, scolpati! - Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma: Scene Three: Deh! Non volerli vittime - Vincenzo Bellini
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Free Music Review: Not the best Callas "Norma"
Hit: 3 Stars
I am a great admirer of Callas - what sane lover of voice and opera isn't? - which is precisely why I cannot understand giving this "Norma" five stars when there is competition of far greater quality - provided by Callas herself in her other recordings. No other artist, including Sutherland or Caballe, can touch her interpretation but if you want to hear her worthily partnered, go to either of the live 1955 mono recordings with Del Monaco as Pollione (conducted by Serafin or Votto, in listenable, but limited, sound) or the 1960 stereo version with Corelli, Ludwig and - for the third time - Zaccaria. Callas' voice had not so much deteriorated by that time, apart from a few flapping top notes, and there are huge compensations in the delicacy of her characterisation, the quality of her partners and the good studio sound. (The decline in Callas' voice was not a linear process as her later recordings of "Gioconda" and the 1960 "Norma" testify.) Regarding this 1954 performance, in truth, that great artist Ebe Stignani was too mature for Adalgisa by this stage of her career, Filippeschi is very ordinary and blaring as Pollione and Rossi-Lemeni is his usual gruff, gritty self, unsteady of line compared with the smooth production of Zaccaria. No; go for any of the other three recordings I suggest before this one - though I readily admit that if none other were available, I'd probably be happy with it!
Bellini - Norma / Mar?a Callas Poster
A recording of Norma is essential for any Maria Callas collection. This intense and musically demanding drama deals with forbidden love, infidelity, conflicting emotions, and death that comes almost as a relief from overwrought passion. It gives Callas golden opportunities for characterization and dramatic gestures in her timing, vocal coloration, verbal and dynamic emphases. Of the half-dozen or more perennially on the market, the first choice is this one, dating from 1954 when her voice was in relatively good shape (although the 1960 EMI recording, also conducted by Tullio Serafin, had even better acting and, in Christa Ludwig, a much better supporting cast). Callas is essential to those who enjoy opera primarily as theatre. The singing is vivid, if typically uneven, and reinforced by Serafin's expert conducting. --Joe McLellanClassical Music CDs
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