Gstaad Festival (3): Norma with Yoncheva and Pop

Gstaad Festival (3): Norma with Yoncheva and Pop

Bellini Norma (librettist: Felice Romani after Alexandre Soumet's play, Norma, ou l'infanicide)Bellini’s Norma is one of the great operas; it is far more than just ‘Casta Diva’.  And those UK readers who attended Chelsea Opera Group’s presentation of the same composer’s La Straniera given by Chelsea Opera Group in June this year (review) will have had just a little edge in appreciating Bellini's genius. This Norma was effectively a concert perfo…

Norma at Gstaad – Opera Today

Bellini’s Norma is one of the great operas; it is far more than just ‘Casta Diva’.  And those UK readers who attended Chelsea Opera Group’s presentation of the same composer’s La Straniera in June this year (review) will have had just a little edge in appreciating Bellini’s genius. This Norma was effectively a concert performance, or perhaps hemidemisemi-staged: lighting changed colour regularly, largely in congruence with the action, and the sp…