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Vincenzo Bellini: Norma - Callas, Filippeschi - Scala, Serafin (1954)


Classical | EMI | Catalog Number: 5 56241 2 | 1997

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With two official EMI versions and five complete live recordings, Norma is at the top of the Callas hit parade, but choosing a single version is a nightmare as each has its virtues, based on the state of the soprano's voice or the surrounding cast. My first choice lies with the first 1954 studio recording where the balance between vocal health and emotive quality is as good as one can get for this artist. This was Maria Callas' first studio-recorded Norma, and it remains a formidable performance. If it doesn't quite have the emotional shadings of her 1960 EMI re-make, it is certainly vocally more secure and in its way just as authoritative. The grandeur of the voice itself is always in evidence; her seeming spontaneity to dramatic situations makes the drama real. Mario Filippeschi's Pollione is impressive--he was a finer tenor than he's given credit for--and Ebe Stignani's Adalgisa is warm and blends superbly with Callas in the duets. Nicola Rossi-Lemeni's Oroveso is a mass of wobbles. Tullio Serafin leads masterfully but observes all the cuts that were standard for the '50s. Most people prefer the 1960 performance, with its clearer delineation between Norma-the-warrior and Norma-the-woman (and for Corelli and Ludwig in the two supporting roles, not to mention the stereo sound), but by 1960 Callas' vocal problems were pretty overt, so you'll have to take the good with the bad. My preference is for the 1955 recording (on Opera d'Oro) with del Monaco under Serafin; its minute-by-minute potency and glorious singing are unmatchable. Robert Levine

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Opera in Two Acts On a libretto of Felice Romani

Cast:

Norma: Maria Callas

Pollione: Mario Filippeschi

Adalgisa: Ebe Stignani

Oroveso: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni

Flavio: Paolo Caroli

Clotilde: Rina Cavallari

Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Conductor: Tullio Serafin

Recording Date: 1954

Total Time : CD1: 62':08" CD2: 27':56" CD3: 70':29"

Tracklist:

CD 1

01. Sinfonia

02. Ite sul colle...Dell'aura tua profetica

03. Svanir le Voci!

04. Meco all'altar di Venere

05. Odi?...I suoi riti a compiere

06. Me protegge, me difende

07. Norma viene

08. Sediziose voci

09. Casta Diva

10. Fine al rito, e il sacro bosco

11. Ah! bello a me ritorna

12. Sgombra è la sacra selva

13. Eccola - va, mi lascia

14. Va, crudele

15. Vieni in Roma

CD 2

01. Vanne, e li cela entrambi

02. Adalgisa... Alma, costanza

03. Oh, rimembranza

05. Ma di'... l'amato giovine

06. Oh, di qual sei tu vittima

07. Perfido... Or basti

08. Vanne, sì, mi lascia, indegno

CD 3

01. Introduzione

02. Dormono Entrambi !

03. Olà! Clotilde!

04. Mi chiami, o Norma?

05. Deh! con te, con te li prendi

06. Mira, o Norma

07. Cedi---deh cedi!

08. Si, fino all'ore estreme

09. Non parti ?

10. Guerrieri! a voi venirne

11. Ah! del tebro al giogo indegno

12. E tornerà. Si!

13. Squilla il bronzo del Dio!

14. Guerra! guerra!

15. Né compi il rito, o Norma ?

16. In mia man alfin tu sei

17. Già mi pasco ne' tuoi sguardi

18. Dammi quel ferro !

19. Qual cor tradisti

20. Norma! deh! Norma, scòlpati!

21. Deh! Non volerli vittime

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