Norma discography

{{Short description|none}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''Norma'' discography}} This is a list of recordings of '''''Norma''''', a two-act opera by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian-language libretto by Felice Romani. It was first performed on 26 December 1831, at La Scala in Milan.

{| class="wikitable" !Year !Cast: (Norma, Pollione, Adalgisa, Oroveso) !Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra (Recording/production details) !Label |- | 1937 || Gina Cigna, Giovanni Martinelli, Bruna Castagna, Ezio Pinza || Ettore Panizza, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Live broadcast, 20 February 1937, Metropolitan Opera House) ||CD: Metropolitan Opera<ref>''Norma'', Met Opera broadcast of 20 February 1937: {{OCLC|57372177}}; Met Opera Database, [https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=19370220 CID:120790]; mentioned as "the legendary 1937 MET broadcast" by Joseph Newsome in [http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/cecilia_bartoli.php "Cecilia Bartoli as Norma"], ''Opera Today'', 30 May 2013.</ref> |- | 1937 || Gina Cigna, Giovanni Breviario, Ebe Stignani, Tancredi Pasero|| Vittorio Gui, Orchestra and Chorus of the EIAR Torino ||CD: Premiere Opera Cat: CDNO 322-2 |- | 1944 || Zinka Milanov, Frederick Jagel, Jennie Tourel, Norman Cordon || Cesare Sodero, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra (Live broadcast, Metropolitan Opera House, 30 December 1944)<ref>[https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=19441230 ''Norma'', Metropolitan Opera House, 30 December 1944], Met Opera Database.</ref> ||CD: Myto Cat: 2 MCD 954.137 |- | 1952 || Maria Callas, Mirto Picchi, Ebe Stignani, Giacomo Vaghi, Clotilde: Joan Sutherland|| Vittorio Gui, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra (Recorded live, 8 November 1952)<ref>Ardoin 1977, pp. 56–58: "Callas was in top vocal form, apart from the opening scene [with the aria 'Casta Diva']".</ref> ||CD: EMI Classics Cat: 562 668-2 |- | 1954 || Maria Callas, Mario Filippeschi, Ebe Stignani Nicola Rossi-Lemeni || Tullio Serafin, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, (Studio recording, 23 April – 3 May 1954)<ref>Ardoin 1977, pp. 78–79: Callas sings Norma as "more the warrior than the woman".</ref>||LP: Columbia Cat: 33CX 1179-81 CD: EMI Classics Cat: 586 8342 |- | 1955 || Maria Callas, Mario del Monaco, Ebe Stignani, Giuseppe Modesti || Tullio Serafin, Orchestra and Chorus of the RAI Rome (Concert performance, Rome RAI, 29 June 1955)<ref>Ardoin 1977, p. 99: "closer to the London performance of 1952, and in several instances betters it. Norma the warrior is less dominant." Some stridency in top notes until the third [''sic''] act.</ref> ||CD: Myto Cat: 00140 |- | 1955|| Maria Callas, Mario del Monaco, Giulietta Simionato, Nicola Zaccaria || Antonino Votto, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala (Recorded live, 7 December 1955)<ref>Ardoin 1977, p. 106: Callas "in stupendous voice".</ref>||CD: Myto Cat: MCD 00153 |- | 1960 || Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Christa Ludwig, Nicola Zaccaria || Tullio Serafin, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala (Studio recording, 5–12 September 1960)<ref>''Norma'', Teatro alla Scala studio recording, 5–12 September 1960: CD ({{OCLC|456198404|1374303459}}); Ardoin 1977, pp. 157–158: "This Norma is more giving [than in the 1954 EMI recording], more many-sided, more complex, and drawn in finer lines. 'Casta Diva', for example, is quieter, more mesmerizing (with phrase endings exquisitely tapered into silence)".</ref>||CD: EMI Classics Cat: CMS 5 66428-2 |- | 1964 || Joan Sutherland, John Alexander, Marilyn Horne, Richard Cross || Richard Bonynge, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, (Studio recording) ||LP: RCA Victor Cat: LSC-6166 CD: Decca Cat: 475 7902; 000717202 (USA) |- | 1964 || Leyla Gencer, Bruno Prevedi, Adriana Lazzarini, William Wildermann || Bruno Bartoletti, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Colón ||CD: live-rare-opera Cat: Not given |- | 1967 || Elena Souliotis, Mario del Monaco, Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Cava || Silvio Varviso, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ||CD: London Cat: POCL 3824-5 |- | 1972 || Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Ruggero Raimondi || Carlo Felice Cillario, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus || LP: RCA Red Seal Cat: LSC-6202 CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 88875073482 |- | 1973 || Montserrat Caballé, Carlo Cossutta, Fiorenza Cossotto, Giorgio Tozzi || Carlo Felice Cillario, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Recorded live, 17 February 1973) || Streaming audio: Met Opera on Demand<ref>[https://ondemand.metopera.org/performance/detail/73401728-f4df-5af9-90a0-947c0302db8d ''Norma'' Met Opera, 17 February 1973], Met Opera on Demand; [https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=19730217 CID: 232540], Met Opera Database. Also available for streaming via [https://music.apple.com/ie/album/bellini-norma-recorded-live-at-the-met-february-17-1973/1059248571 Apple Music] and for download in the iTunes Store.</ref> |- | 1973 || Beverly Sills, Enrico Di Giuseppe, Shirley Verrett, Paul Plishka || James Levine, New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir ||LP: ABC Cat: ATS-20017 CD: DGG Cat: 477 8186 |- | 1974 || Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers, Josephine Veasey Agostino Ferrin || Giuseppe Patanè, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Torino, (Recorded live, 27 July, Théâtre antique d'Orange, Orange Festival) ||CD: Opera d'Oro Cat: OPD 1140; DVD: VAI<ref>{{OCLC|612621943}}.</ref> Cat: 4229 |- | 1979 || Renata Scotto, Giuseppe Giacomini, Tatiana Troyanos, Paul Plishka || James Levine, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus||CD: Sony Cat: 88697446182 |- | 1981 || Joan Sutherland, Francisco Ortiz, Tatiana Troyanos, Justino Diaz || Richard Bonynge, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Chorus || DVD: VAI Cat: DVDVAI 4202 |- | 1984 || Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Samuel Ramey || Richard Bonynge, Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera ||CD: London Cat: POCL 2891-3 |- |1986 || Maria Bieșu, Gegam Grigoryan, Ludmila Nam Georgi Seleznev || Mark Ermler, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre ||CD: Melodiya Cat: MCD 160 |- | 1994 || Jane Eaglen, Vincenzo La Scola, Eva Mei, Dmitri Kavrakos || Riccardo Muti, Orchestra and chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, VII 1994) ||CD: EMI Cat: B008L41Z0Q |- | 2001 || June Anderson, Shin Young Hoon, Daniela Barcellona, Ildar Abdrazakov || Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante, Verdi Festival Chorus (Recorded live, March 2001, Teatro Regio, Parma) || DVD: TDK Cat: DV ONOR |- | 2005 || {{Nowrap|Dimitra Theodossiou}}, Carlo Ventre, Nidia Palacios, Riccardo Zanellato || Giuliano Carella, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo Bellini (Catania) (Recorded live, June) || DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33493<ref>John Steane, [https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/31682/page/111 "Not ringing my bel canto"], ''Gramophone'' (October 2006), p. 111. See also {{OCLC|893638727}}.</ref> |- | 2007 || Dimitra Theodossiou, Carlo Ventre, Daniela Barcellona, Simon Orfila ||Paolo Arrivabeni, Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Coro Lirico Marchigiano "Vincenzo Bellini" (Recorded live, August 2007, Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macerata) || DVD: Dynamic<ref>{{OCLC|251853765}}.</ref> Cat: 33561 |- |2013 || Cecilia Bartoli, John Osborn, Sumi Jo Michele Pertusi || Giovanni Antonini, Orchestra La Scintilla, Zurich (playing on period instruments) || CD: Decca Cat: 0289 478 3517 2<ref>Joseph Newsome, [http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/cecilia_bartoli.php "Cecilia Bartoli as Norma"], in ''Opera Today'', 30 May 2013.</ref> |- |2015 ||Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Gubanova, Raymond Aceto |Renato Palumbo, Gran Teatre del Liceu orchestra and chorus (Kevin Newbury, stage director; recorded live, February 2015) |Blu-ray/DVD: C major<ref>''Norma'', Liceu, 2015: Blu-ray ({{ASIN|B01IQEGCGW}}); DVD ({{OCLC|962186602}}).</ref> Cat:737208 |- |2016 ||Sonya Yoncheva, Joseph Calleja, Sonia Ganassi, Brindley Sherratt |Antonio Pappano, The Royal Opera orchestra and chorus (Àlex Ollé, stage director; recorded live, 26 September 2016) |HD video: Royal Opera Stream<ref>[https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/norma-2016-digital ''Norma'' (2016)"], Royal Ballet & Opera Stream. Also available via [https://www.medici.tv/en/operas/bellini-norma-royal-opera-antonio-pappano-sonya-yoncheva-alex-olle medici.tv].</ref> Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte<ref>''Norma'', Royal Opera, 2016: Blu-ray ({{OCLC|1038020977}}); DVD ({{OCLC|1011631803}}).</ref> Cat:OA1247D |- |2017 ||Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Rose |Carlo Rizzi, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (David McVicar, production; recorded live, 7 October 2017) ||HD video: Met Opera on Demand<ref>[https://ondemand.metopera.org/performance/detail/00a55ba8-ef8d-586f-88bd-40618d0e0ae8 ''Norma'', Met Opera, 7 October 2017], Met Opera on Demand; [https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=20171007 CID: 356753], Met Opera Database.</ref> Blu-ray/DVD: Erato<ref>''Norma'', Met Opera, 2017: Blu-ray ({{OCLC|1082339499}}); DVD ({{OCLC|1082868346}}).</ref> |- |2018 ||Mariella Devia, Stefan Pop, Annalisa Stroppa, Riccardo Fassi |Andrea Battistoni, Teatro Carlo Felice orchestra and chorus (Teatrialchemici, Luigi di Gangi and Ugo Giacomazzi, stage direction) |DVD: Bongiovanni Cat: AB 20041 |- |2025 |Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Aigul Akhmetshina, Tareq Nazmi |Francesco Lanzillotta, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Symphoniker, Vienna (Stage director: Vasily Barkhatov; recorded live, 23 February) |Streaming video: Arte<ref>[https://www.operaonvideo.com/norma-vienna-2025-asmik-grigorian-aigul-akhmetshina-freddie-de-tommaso-tareq-nazmi/ ''Norma'' Vienna 2025], Opera on Video, retrieved 19 July 2025; [https://browse.carnegiehallplus.com/detail/videos/opera-dance/video/6375066328112 Carnegie Hall+].</ref> |}

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==References== {{Reflist}} ;Sources *[http://www.operadis-opera-discography.org.uk/CLBLNORM.HTM Recordings of ''Norma'' on operadis-opera-discography.org.uk] * Ardoin, John (1977). ''The Callas Legacy''. New York: Charels Scribner's Sons. {{ISBN|0-684-15297-5}}.

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