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    NORMA (annotated): Libretto ebook (Full Text English-Italian)
    NORMA (annotated): Libretto ebook (Full Text English-Italian)
    NORMA (annotated): Libretto ebook (Full Text English-Italian)
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    NORMA (annotated): Libretto ebook (Full Text English-Italian)

    By Vincenzo BELLINI

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       NORMA - Tragic Opera in two acts by Vincenzo BELLINI. 
       Libretto by Felice Romani (Full Text ENGLISH - Italian), Synopsis, Opera Guide, Links to YouTube
       Vincenzo Bellini (Biography), ebook and PDF for Smartphone, 110 pages, 14 x 22 cm.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFlying Dutchman
    Release dateSep 18, 2017
    ISBN9788826489186
    NORMA (annotated): Libretto ebook (Full Text English-Italian)

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      NORMA (annotated) - Vincenzo BELLINI

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      NORMA - Vincenzo Bellini

      Libretto (Full Text ENGLISH - Italian)

      N O R M A

      Tragic Opera in two acts

      Tragedia lirica in due atti

      by / di Felice Romani

      after Norma, ou L'infanticide by Alexandre Soumet

      Music by / Musica di

      Vincenzo Bellini

      Premiere / Prima rappresentazione:

      Milan / Milano, Teatro alla Scala

      26 December / Dicembre 1831

      Cover / Copertina:

      http://www.iteatridellest.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/AttoI_scena_IV-light-e1455527828964.jpg

      NORMA: scene di Ezio Frigerio, costumi di Franca Squarciapino, regia di Lorenzo Amato, luci di Vincenzo Raponi. Dir. Nello Santi. Coro e Orchestra Teatro San Carlo di Napoli (21/02/2016).

      Synopsis

      Sinfonia

      Act 1

      Sc.1 The sacred forest of the Druids

      The sinfonia uses themes from Norma’s duet with Pollione in Act 2 and a section of the chorus ‘Guerra, guerra’. Oroveso, in ‘Ite sul colle, o Druidi’, instructs the Druids to watch for the first sight of the new moon and then to signal, with three strokes on the bronze shield of Irminsul, the start of the sacred rite over which Norma will preside. The Druids call on Irminsul to inspire Norma with hatred against the Romans in the chorus ‘Dell’aura tua profetica’. As they leave, Pollione and Flavio enter the grove. Although Pollione once loved Norma (who has borne him two children), his passion for her has cooled and he now loves Adalgisa, who returns his love. Flavio asks if he does not fear Norma’s anger; Pollione trembles at the thought and relates his dream of approaching the altar of Venus in Rome with Adalgisa, only to be confronted with a dreadful phantom while the voice of a demon proclaims Norma’s revenge. His cavatina ‘Meco all’altar di Venere’, more robust than those written for Rubini, is interrupted by the sound of the gong and the voices of the Druids, accompanied by a march, announcing that the moon has risen and commanding that all profaners of the sacred grove be gone. After Pollione’s cabaletta on a theme inspired by the march, he and Flavio hurry away.

      The Druids file into the grove; in the chorus ‘Norma viene: le cinge la chioma’ they evoke her appearance, with her hair wreathed in mistletoe and a golden sickle in her hand. Norma arrives surrounded by the priestesses. In her recitative, ‘Sediziose voci’, she criticizes the Druids’ warlike chants; the time is not yet ripe to rise against the Romans, who will be defeated at the appointed hour. Norma cuts a branch of mistletoe from the oak-tree in the centre of the grove; then, raising her arms, she prays to the chaste goddess of the moon in ‘Casta diva’ (in the autograph MS this cavatina is pitched one tone higher than in Ricordi’s printed scores). She asks that there be peace for the present; when the moment arrives to shed the Romans’ blood she, Norma, will lead the revolt. The Druids demand that the first victim should be Pollione; Norma realizes that she could not kill him herself, and in the cabaletta, ‘Ah! bello, a me ritorna’, admits that if he were to return to her, she would defend his life. The melody of this cabaletta is adapted from one used in Bianca e Fernando (1828) and Zaira (1829) with a new coda added. When the Druids have left the grove, Adalgisa laments her weakness in succumbing to Pollione, then in ‘Deh! proteggimi, o dio’, prays for strength to resist him. Pollione returns to find her in tears. At first she professes to have overcome her love for him, but in a duet, ‘Va, crudele, al dio spietato’, he urges her to fly with him to Rome and finally she agrees to renounce her vows.

      1.2 Norma’s dwelling

      Norma is troubled because Pollione has been recalled to Rome. She asks Clotilde to hide her children as someone is heard outside. It is Adalgisa, who comes to ask Norma for help and counsel. She confesses that while praying in the sacred grove, she saw a man who seemed to be a heavenly vision. In ‘Sola, furtiva, al tempio’, Adalgisa tells Norma how she continued to see the man in secret and at each meeting fell more deeply in love with him. Her confession is overlaid with Norma’s nostalgic recollections of her own love affair. Sympathetically Norma agrees to free Adalgisa from her vows (which are not yet final), so that she can depart with her lover. The two voices unite in ‘Ah! sì, fa core e abbracciami’, whose cadenza in thirds characterizes their warm friendship throughout the opera. Norma asks who Adalgisa’s lover might be; the girl indicates Pollione, who enters at that moment. With ‘Oh! di qual sei tu vittima’ (adapted from the Ernani sketches of 1830), Norma launches into the trio that replaces the usual finale ensemble. She enlightens Adalgisa on her own betrayal by Pollione and vehemently denounces him; he admits his love for Adalgisa and begs her to come away with him, but she refuses, while Norma bursts out with even greater fury in ‘Vanne, sì: mi

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