Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 ? September 23, 1835) was an Italian opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines, Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera. Bellini is best known for his opera Norma, the title role of which is considered one of the most difficult roles in the soprano repertoire. During the 20th century, only a small number of singers were able to sing it with success: Rosa Ponselle in the early 1920s, and later Joan Sutherland in the 1950s and 1960s. Maria Callas was the famous Norma of the postwar period; she performed it many times and recorded it in the studio twice. (Collapse)...(Read more)
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (1801–1835) was an Italian opera composer. A native of Catania in Sicily, his greatest works are I Capu...
Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (1801–1835) was an Italian opera composer. A native of Catania in Sicily, his greatest works are I Capuleti ed i Montecchi (1830), La sonnambula (1831), Norma (1831), Beatrice di Tenda (1833), and I puritani (1835). Known for his long-flowing melodic lines, for which he was named "the Swan of Catania", Bellini was the quintessential composer of bel canto opera. He died in Puteaux, France at the age of 33, nine months after the premiere of his last opera, I puritani.
Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after Norma, ossia L'infanticidio (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet. First produced at La Scala on 26 December 1831, it is generally regarded as an example of the supreme height of the bel canto tradition. "Casta diva" was one of the most familiar arias of the nineteenth century.
Although originally composed for Opera, I created this arrangement for Concert (Pedal) Harp.
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