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Bellini's Norma

From the New York Met: Helena Dix stars as the Gaulish priestess who falls for a Roman - not just an enemy of her people but an unfaithful one too.

From the New York Met: Helena Dix stars as the Gaulish priestess who falls for a Roman - not just an enemy of her people but an unfaithful one too. In this all-star production of Bellini's tragic masterpiece the Roman Pollione is sung by Michael Spyres, with Ekaterina Gubanova as Adalgisa, the younger priestess he now prefers to Norma.

Presented by Debra Lew Harder, in conversation with Ira Siff.

Norma ..... Helena Dix (soprano)
Pollione ..... Michael Spyres (tenor)
Adalgisa ..... Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo-soprano)
Oroveso ..... Christian Van Horn (bass-baritone)
Flavio, Pollione’s friend ..... Yongzhao Yu (tenor)
Clotilde, Norma’s companion ..... Brittany Olivia Logan (soprano)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
Conductor Maurizio Benini

3 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 Mar 2023 18:30

Music Played

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma (Act 1)

    Singer: Helena Dix. Singer: Michael Spyres. Singer: Ekaterina Gubanova. Singer: Christian Van Horn. Singer: Yongzhao Yu. Singer: Brittany Olivia Logan. Choir: Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Maurizio Benini.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma (Act 2)

    Singer: Helena Dix. Singer: Michael Spyres. Singer: Ekaterina Gubanova. Singer: Christian Van Horn. Singer: Yongzhao Yu. Singer: Brittany Olivia Logan. Choir: Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Maurizio Benini.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Performer: David Nadien. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    In Windsor Forest [complete]

    Choir: Bournemouth Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar. Singer: Helen Field.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Sat 25 Mar 2023 18:30