Vincenzo Bellini - Norma

An opera handbook on the popular and still performed opera Norma, by Vincenzo Bellini.

List of contents

1. The composition of the opera; 2. Medea - Velleda - Norma: Romani's sources; 3. Synopsis and musical frame; 4. Music and poetry; 5. A glimpse of the genesis of the opera; 6. Some variant readings; 7. Contemporary reactions to Norma; 8. Critical fortunes since the unification of Italy; 9. Five prima donnas: contributions to a performance history.

Summary

Norma is by common consent the finest of the ten operas composed during Vincenzo Bellini's short career. In this 1998 book, Professor Kimbell provides the biographical and cultural context of the opera, examines its artistic qualities and suggests something of the impression Norma has made since it was first produced.

Product details

• Authors: David Kimbell, David R. B. Kimbell, David R. B. (University of Edinburgh) Kimbell
• Assisted by: Richard Wagner (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521485142
• ISBN: 978-0-521-48514-2
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 206 g
• Series: Cambridge Opera Handbooks
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet