12/16/17 – Norma – 1pm
Metropolitan Opera
VINCENZO BELLINI
Norma
“Ponselle, Milanov, Sutherland, Callas … after last night, Radvanovsky can add her name to the list,” declared the Huffington Post when Sondra Radvanovsky made her Met role debut as Norma in 2013. The 2017–18 season opens with a new production of Bellini’s masterpiece, starring Radvanovsky as the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her archrival, Adalgisa—a casting coup for bel canto fans. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover, and Carlo Rizzi conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.
SUNG IN Italian
ESTIMATED RUN TIME: 3 HRS 4 MINS
Front page photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
CONDUCTOR Joseph Colaneri
NORMA Angela Meade
ADALGISA Jamie Barton
POLLIONE Joseph Calleja
OROVESO Matthew Rose