Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 1 ch) | 160 min | 7,71 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Hardy Classic Video | Sub: Italiano, English, Francais, Espanol | Recorded: 1974
PAL 4:3 (720x576) VBR | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 1 ch) | 160 min | 7,71 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Hardy Classic Video | Sub: Italiano, English, Francais, Espanol | Recorded: 1974
Here in Orange, France, on a windswept, night in 1974, they had greatness itself. Pierre Jourdan's film of the event is a priceless document, first of all, in the history of the opera. Stage-settings of Norma are usually hopeless: an offence to the eye, a chafing confutation of the spirit by gross matter. The ancient Roman amphitheatre is at any rate worthy and appropriate, and the Mistral, which threatened to close down the whole show and turn away an audience estimated at 10,000, adds a fine reminder of the power of Nature as it sets the druidical robes billowing and attacks the microphones.The vastness of the stage provides a further challenge to the man in charge, and although conductor Giuseppe Patanè's star is somewhat eclipsed in the general view of things, he deserves congratulation for two contrary achievements – holding the ensemble together and giving the soloists freedom. But it's their night, and particularly Caballé's. She called it the greatest single performance of her career.
In certain passages it's hard to think of any voice we've known that could sound more lovely; but, more than that, the great role is sung and acted with such well-founded assurance that for once it fulfils its own legend, the embodiment of musical-dramatic sublimity in 19th-century opera. Of the others in the cast it must for now suffice to say that they're worthy partners.–Gramophone Classical Music Guide
Performer:
Norma - Montserrat Caballé
Pollione - Jon Vickers
Adalgisa - Josephine Veasey
Oroveso - Agostino Ferrin
Clotilde - Marisa Zotti
Flavio - Gino Sininberghi
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino
Direttore - Giuseppe Patané
Regia - Pierre Jourdan
Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
Giuseppe Patané, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers - Vincenzo Bellini: Norma (2005)
