Norma by Bellini, la 01 huhti 2017, Alkaen (2017/2017), Ohjannut Sergio Morabito, Jossi Wieler,, Musiikinjohto Felix Korobov, Novaya Opera Theatre, Moscow, Russia

The idea of this performance was embodied in 2002 on the stage of the Stuttgart State Opera, and, according to the German magazine Opernwelt, "Norma" became the event of the year. The authors of the modern stage inversion J. Wheeler, S. Morabito, A. Fibrok transferred the legend of the forbidden love of the high priestess of the ancient Gauls Norma to the harsh realities of the XX century. The very plot of psychological melodrama is preserved, and the woman's opposition to the patriarchal way of life in religion, in public morality, in love becomes even more piercing and sublime. The pinnacle of the romantic musical drama – Norma's cavatina Casta diva sounds like an anthem of All-Consuming Love, a hymn to a Woman...