Bellini's Norma

Standard is the third last opera by Vincenzo Bellini, as well as the most represented (the famous aria "Casta diva" was the testing ground for the world's greatest soprano). Tragic opera in two acts with a libretto by Felice Romani, from the homonym tragedy by Alexandre Soumet, staged at La Scala December 26, 1831, meets inside a dramatic story of love, that between the protagonist and the proconsul Pollio, and 'equally tragic political dimension, which sees oppose conquered (the rooster people, whose priestess Norma) and rulers (the Roman occupation army). In a series of twists and turns, the final climax heroin, guilty of having betrayed their own people out of love, self-condemnation to the stake, followed by the same Pollio, annihilated and admired by the nobility of his act.

Characters and Performers:

Pollio: Roberto Aronica
Oroveso: Simon Lim
Norma: Mariella Devia
Adalgisa: Roxana Constantinescu
Clotilde: Anna Bordignon
Flavio: Antonello Ceron

Concert master and conductor Daniele Callegari
Staging, sets and costumes: Kara Walker
Assistant Director: Charles Fabius
Light designer: Vilmo Furian

Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro La Fenice
Chorus Master: Claudio Marino Moretti

with surtitles in Italian and English

New production Fondazione Teatro La Fenice special project of the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale