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Vincenzo Bellini, Gabriele Santini, Rome Opera Orchestra
Bellini: Norma
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Norma, opera: Overture
2. Norma, opera: Act 1. Ite sul colle, O Druidi
3. Norma, opera: Act 1. Svanir le voci
4. Norma, opera: Act 1. Meco all'altar di Venere
5. Norma, opera: Act 1. Mi protegge, me difende
6. Norma, opera: Act 1. Sediziose voci
7. Norma, opera: Act 1. Casta Diva
8. Norma, opera: Act 1. Ah! bello a me ritorna
9. Norma, opera: Act 1. Sgombra ? la sacra selva
10. Norma, opera: Act 1. Eccola! Va, mi lascia
11. Norma, opera: Act 1. Va, crudele, al Dio spietato
12. Norma, opera: Act 1. Vieni in Roma, ah! vieni, o cara
13. Norma, opera: Act 1. Vanne, e li cela entrambi
14. Norma, opera: Act 1. Adalgisa!... Alma costanza
15. Norma, opera: Act 1. Ah s?, fa core e abbracciami
Track Listings (15) - Disc #2
1. Norma, opera: Act 1. Oh! di qual sei tu vittima
2. Norma, opera: Act 1. Vanne, s?, mi lascia indegno
3. Norma, opera: Act 2. Dormono entrambi
4. Norma, opera: Act 2. Me chianni, o Norma?
5. Norma, opera: Act 2. Mira, o Norma
6. Norma, opera: Act 2. S?, fino all'ore estreme
7. Norma, opera: Act 2. Non parti? Finora ? al campo
8. Norma, opera: Act 2. Ah! del Tebro al giorgo indegno
9. Norma, opera: Act 2. Ei torner?! S?!
10. Norma, opera: Act 2. Norma, che fu?
11. Norma, opera: Act 2. N? compi il rito, o Norma?
12. Norma, opera: Act 2. In mia man alfin tu sei
13. Norma, opera: Act 2. Gi? mi pasco nei tuoi sguardi
14. Norma, opera: Act 2. Qual cor tradisti
15. Norma, opera: Act 2. Deh! non volerli vittime

CD Details

All Artists: Vincenzo Bellini, Gabriele Santini, Rome Opera Orchestra, Anita Cerquetti, Franco Corelli, Giannella Borelli, Giulio Nero, Miriam Pirazzini, Piero de Palma
Title: Bellini: Norma
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Opera D'oro
Release Date: 4/12/2005
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 723721099053

Synopsis

Album Description

The presence of Franco Corelli on this Norma is by itself enough to drive sales to a mass audience. But Anita Cerquetti in the title role? This fabulous soprano, whose career was cut short by ill health, had the voice most like that of Maria Callas, and her recordings are few. Connoisseurs will line up! Live performance, January 4, 1958.

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CD Reviews

Very rough diamond

zaranda | Winnetka, CA United States | 05/23/2005

(3 out of 5 stars)

"In the aftermath of Maria Callas' famous 1st Act walk-off in January 1958, Anita Cerquetti came on for the remaining Rome Opera performances. After hearing this highly flawed recording you may fume in futile fury that Decca or Cetra or somebody did not rush the cast very next morning into a studio for a commercial setting down. Too bad, they didn't.

Cerquetti's histrionics are not of Callas proportions--one does not cringe before her "trema per te, felon!"--but her voice is always wonderfully rich, vibrant, above all Steady, and--without wobble. Corelli was still in the early flush of his natural endowment, and he luxuriates in the super machismo high testosterone chestiness of it all.

There are apparently limits to digital technology. Altho Opera D'oro's is some improvement over the vinyl "pirate" edition of decades ago--the voices are brought forward more satisfactorily--the sound is, by contemporary standards--even by 1958 air-check standards--wretched. This was supposedly a broadcast pick-up but one might think it was taken off by a guy in the top balcony with a mini concealed in the hanky pocket of an outlandish sports jacket. It is uneven, scratchy at times, cavernous, top-suppressed...on and on. Still, at only $12, Normaphiles' existence with this version "omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries""