Key facts
- Librettist
- Felice Romani
- Language
- Italian
- Based on
- Alexandre Soumet 's play Norma, ou L'infanticide
- Premiere
- 26 December 1831 ( 1831-12-26 ) , Teatro alla Scala , Milan
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Wikidata facts
- Has part
- Casta Diva
- Genre
- opera
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Screenwriter
- Alexandre Soumet
- Composer
- Vincenzo Bellini
- Narrative location
- Gaul
- Librettist
- Felice Romani
- Image
- Disegno per copertina di libretto, disegno di Peter Hoffer per Norma (s.d.) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON012382.jpg
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- set in period
- Gallic War
- Commons category
- Norma (opera)
- date of first performance
- 1831-12-26
- inception
- 1831-00-00
- title
- Norma
- number of parts of this work
- 2
- language of work or name
- Italian
- location of first performance
- La Scala
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- native label
- no
- form of creative work
- opera
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Encyclopedic overview
Norma ( Italian: [ˈnɔrma]) is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma, ou L'infanticide (Norma, or The Infanticide) by Alexandre Soumet. It was first produced at La Scala in Milan on 26 December 1831.
The opera is regarded as a leading example of the bel canto genre, and the soprano prayer "Casta diva" in Act 1 is a famous piece. Among the well known singers of Norma of the first half of the 20th century was Rosa Ponselle who played the role in New York and London. Notable exponents of the title role in the post-war period have been Maria Callas, Leyla Gencer, Joan Sutherland, and Montserrat Caballé.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Norma” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.