VINCENZO BELLINI- NORMA

Norma

An exceptional studio recording featuring Marina Rebeka, Karine Deshayes, Luciano Ganci, Marko Mimica, Anta Jankovska, and Gustavo De Gennaro. Conducted by John Fiore, with the Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid, this album presents a new critical edition of the opera, prepared by Roger Parker for Casa Ricordi.

The album includes a musicological essay and the full libretto in Italian and English. This recording offers a fresh perspective with Marina Rebeka’s performance of Norma’s challenging aria “Casta Diva” in G major, and features an alternate ending to the Act Two chorus that revives music from the Sinfonia. With these and other elements, this album brings new insights and colors to the beloved opera.

Marina Rebeka

Norma, daughter of Oroveso, High-Priestess of the Druids

Karine Deshayes

Adalgisa, Priestess in the grove of the Irminsul statue

Luciano Ganci
Pollione, Roman proconsul in Gaul

Marko Mimica

Oroveso, Norma’s father; chief of the Druids

Anta Jankovska
Clotilde, Norma’s friend

Gustavo De Gennaro
Flavio, Pollione’s companion

Druids, Bards, Gallic Priests, Warriors and Soldiers. The scene is set in Gaul, in the sacred forest and in the temple of Irminsul.

Orquesta y Coro del Teatro Real, Madrid

John Fiore
conductor

THE ARTISTS

Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid

John Fiore

Anta Jankovska

Marko Mimica

Luciano Ganci

Karine Deshayes

Marina Rebeka

Gustavo De Gennaro

CREDITS

Executive producers: Edgardo Vertanessian and Marina Rebeka
Producers: Marina Rebeka, Anete Toča and John Fiore
Recording engineer: Edgardo Vertanessian
Recording assistant: Eduardo Rubio

Editing, mixing and mastering: Edgardo Vertanessian
Recorded at the Teatro Real, Madrid, Spain, in August 2022.

This is not a recording from a live performance.

Artwork design: Tatyana Vlasova and Andrew Vlasov
Editorial consultant and booklet layout: Carlos Céster

Artyom Dervoed – History of Tango

Essay: Roger Parker

Essay translators: Pierre Élie Mamou (French),

Susanne Lowien (German), Andrea Friggi (Italian), Pedro Elías (Spanish)

Libretto translator: Mark Wiggins

Marina Rebeka and Edgardo Vertanessian would like to thank: Ksenia Shestakova, Peter Van Damme, and Andrew Martin Weber for their generous support in making this recording possible.

Joan Matabosch, Daniel López, Nuria Moreno, and all the staff at the Teatro Real for making us feel at home.

Gary Wrigley and Jeremy Commons for the extra material about Bellini, and Roger Parker for his support and availability throughout the recording.

Catalog number PRIMA022