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Norma - Premiere
Melodramma in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani
Norma is a woman caught between two systems. On the one hand, as a chaste Druid priestess in an occupied country, she decides on war and peace; on the other hand, she is the secret lover of the Roman general Pollione, with whom she even has two children. Her double life is threatened with exposure when Pollione wants to leave her for the younger priestess Adalgisa and return to Rome. The unbearable conflict between love and thirst for revenge, between religion and reason, and between her own tradition and an empire almost drives Norma to murder her own children - before she decides to take another, hardly less radical step. Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, written in 1824, is his most famous opera and is one of the masterpieces of Italian Romanticism. With the role of Norma, Bellini created a female character who goes through every imaginable human state in a short space of time and expresses these with musical means from bel canto to screaming. Director Vasily Barkhatov, who most recently staged Weinberg's The Idiot at the MusikTheater an der Wien, interprets the tragedy against the backdrop of a change in the political system. Norma, a priestess of the moon goddess in the opera, gets caught between the millstones of ideological upheavals in which old idols are replaced by new ones. One of the most renowned singers of our time makes her debut in the title role: Asmik Grigorian.
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Co-production with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
Subject to change.
Libretto by Felice Romani
Norma is a woman caught between two systems. On the one hand, as a chaste Druid priestess in an occupied country, she decides on war and peace; on the other hand, she is the secret lover of the Roman general Pollione, with whom she even has two children. Her double life is threatened with exposure when Pollione wants to leave her for the younger priestess Adalgisa and return to Rome. The unbearable conflict between love and thirst for revenge, between religion and reason, and between her own tradition and an empire almost drives Norma to murder her own children - before she decides to take another, hardly less radical step. Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, written in 1824, is his most famous opera and is one of the masterpieces of Italian Romanticism. With the role of Norma, Bellini created a female character who goes through every imaginable human state in a short space of time and expresses these with musical means from bel canto to screaming. Director Vasily Barkhatov, who most recently staged Weinberg's The Idiot at the MusikTheater an der Wien, interprets the tragedy against the backdrop of a change in the political system. Norma, a priestess of the moon goddess in the opera, gets caught between the millstones of ideological upheavals in which old idols are replaced by new ones. One of the most renowned singers of our time makes her debut in the title role: Asmik Grigorian.
In Italian with German and English surtitles
Introduction to the work 30 minutes before the start of the performance
Co-production with the Staatsoper Unter den Linden Berlin
Subject to change.
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