Opera

Vincenzo Bellini

Norma

03 Mar, 21 - 19 Mar, 21

Musical conductor: Marco Armiliato | Stage director: Justin Way | Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real

New production of the Teatro Real

11 NOV. 20

Start selling day

03 Mar 21

Premiere date

19 Mar 21

Last performance

Performances

Never before had the taboos relating to female virginity been staged so explicitly as in Italian Romantic opera. Although condemned to ostracism in real life, in bel canto melodrama heroines stand up as transgressors, victims or practisers of pagan rites to simultaneously stimulate the public’s admiration, compassion and terror. The most tragic and demanding from a vocal point of view among them is Norma, opening at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan in 1831. Set during the Roman occupation of Gaul, it includes themes of motherhood, friendship and sisterhood, warmongering and religious fanaticism. Thanks to its legendary beauty and ethereality this combination renews the opera’s appeal generation after generation. Bellini breathed life into his melodies with an unusual dramatic weight which even inspired the admiration of Wagner, who, without doubt, used the embers from the immolation of Norma to light the pyre of Brünnhilde.

Lyrical tragedy in two acts

Music by Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Libretto by Felice Romani, based on the work Norma, ou l’infanticide (1831) by Alexandre Soumet

Premiered at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan on the 26th of December, 1831
Premiered at the Teatro Real on the 13th of November, 1851

New production of the Teatro Real

Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intermezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)

Artistic team

Conductor | Marco Armiliato *

Stage Director | Justin Way

Set Designer | Charles Edwards

Costume Designer | Sue Willmington

Light Designer | Nicolas Fischtel

Chorus Master | Andrés Máspero

Cast

Pollione

| Michael Spyres - 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 mar
| John Osborn - 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 19 mar

Oroveso

| Roberto Tagliavini - 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 mar
| Fernando Radó - 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 19 mar

Norma

| Yolanda Auyanet - 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 mar
| Hibla Gerzmava - 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 19 mar

Adalgisa

| Clémentine Margaine - 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 mar
| Annalisa Stroppa - 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 19 mar

Clotilde I Berna Perles

Flavio

| Fabián Lara - 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 mar
| Juan Antonio Sanabria - 4, 7, 10, 13, 17, 19 mar

* Maurizio Benini has cancelled his participation in this production due to personal issues.

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Language

Italian

Subtitles in

Spanish, English

Artistic information

Creative team

Musical conductor Marco Armiliato

Stage Director Justin Way

Escenografía Charles Edwards

Figurines Sue Willmington

Iluminación Nicolas Fischtel

Chorus Conductor Andrés Máspero

Coreografía Jo Meredith

Cast

Pollione Michael Spyres

Pollione John Osborn

Oroveso Roberto Tagliavini

Oroveso Fernando Radó

Norma Yolanda Auyanet

Norma Hibla Gerzmava

Adalgisa Clémentine Margaine

Adalgisa Annalisa Stroppa

Clotilde Berna Perles

Flavio Fabián Lara

Flavio Juan Antonio Sanabria

Norma, de Vincenzo Bellini

Programa de mano

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Releases

Patron friends

09 December

2020

Subscribers friend

11 December

2020

Tickets on sale

15 December

2020

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