Norma discography

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This is a list of recordings of Norma, a two-act opera by Vincenzo Bellini with an Italian-language libretto by Felice Romani. It was first performed on 26 December 1831, at La Scala in Milan.

::data[format=table] | Year | Cast: (Norma, Pollione, Adalgisa, Oroveso) | Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra (Recording/production details) | Label | |---|---|---|---| | 1937 | Gina Cigna, Giovanni Martinelli, Bruna Castagna, Ezio Pinza | Ettore Panizza, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Live broadcast, 20 February 1937, Metropolitan Opera House) | CD: Metropolitan Opera | | 1937 | Gina Cigna, Giovanni Breviario, Ebe Stignani, Tancredi Pasero | Vittorio Gui, Orchestra and Chorus of the EIAR Torino | CD: Premiere Opera Cat: CDNO 322-2 | | 1944 | Zinka Milanov, Frederick Jagel, Jennie Tourel, Norman Cordon | Cesare Sodero, Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra (Live broadcast, Metropolitan Opera House, 30 December 1944) | CD: Myto Cat: 2 MCD 954.137 | | 1952 | Maria Callas, Mirto Picchi, Ebe Stignani, Giacomo Vaghi, Clotilde: Joan Sutherland | Vittorio Gui, Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra (Recorded live, 8 November 1952) | CD: EMI Classics Cat: 562 668-2 | | 1954 | Maria Callas, Mario Filippeschi, Ebe Stignani Nicola Rossi-Lemeni | Tullio Serafin, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala, (Studio recording, 23 April – 3 May 1954) | LP: Columbia Cat: 33CX 1179-81 CD: EMI Classics Cat: 586 8342 | | 1955 | Maria Callas, Mario del Monaco, Ebe Stignani, Giuseppe Modesti | Tullio Serafin, Orchestra and Chorus of the RAI Rome (Concert performance, Rome RAI, 29 June 1955) | CD: Myto Cat: 00140 | | 1955 | Maria Callas, Mario del Monaco, Giulietta Simionato, Nicola Zaccaria | Antonino Votto, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala (Recorded live, 7 December 1955) | CD: Myto Cat: MCD 00153 | | 1960 | Maria Callas, Franco Corelli, Christa Ludwig, Nicola Zaccaria | Tullio Serafin, Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala (Studio recording, 5–12 September 1960) | CD: EMI Classics Cat: CMS 5 66428-2 | | 1964 | Joan Sutherland, John Alexander, Marilyn Horne, Richard Cross | Richard Bonynge, London Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Chorus, (Studio recording) | LP: RCA Victor Cat: LSC-6166 CD: Decca Cat: 475 7902; 000717202 (USA) | | 1964 | Leyla Gencer, Bruno Prevedi, Adriana Lazzarini, William Wildermann | Bruno Bartoletti, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Colón | CD: live-rare-opera Cat: Not given | | 1967 | Elena Souliotis, Mario del Monaco, Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Cava | Silvio Varviso, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | CD: London Cat: POCL 3824-5 | | 1972 | Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, Fiorenza Cossotto, Ruggero Raimondi | Carlo Felice Cillario, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus | LP: RCA Red Seal Cat: LSC-6202 CD: RCA Red Seal Cat: 88875073482 | | 1973 | Montserrat Caballé, Carlo Cossutta, Fiorenza Cossotto, Giorgio Tozzi | Carlo Felice Cillario, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (Recorded live, 17 February 1973) | Streaming audio: Met Opera on Demand | | 1973 | Beverly Sills, Enrico Di Giuseppe, Shirley Verrett, Paul Plishka | James Levine, New Philharmonia Orchestra, John Alldis Choir | LP: ABC Cat: ATS-20017 CD: DGG Cat: 477 8186 | | 1974 | Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers, Josephine Veasey Agostino Ferrin | Giuseppe Patanè, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Regio di Torino, (Recorded live, 27 July, Théâtre antique d'Orange, Orange Festival) | |CD: Opera d'Oro Cat: OPD 1140; DVD: VAI Cat: 4229 | | 1979 | Renata Scotto, Giuseppe Giacomini, Tatiana Troyanos, Paul Plishka | James Levine, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus | CD: Sony Cat: 88697446182 | | 1981 | Joan Sutherland, Francisco Ortiz, Tatiana Troyanos, Justino Diaz | Richard Bonynge, Canadian Opera Company Orchestra and Chorus | DVD: VAI Cat: DVDVAI 4202 | | 1984 | Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé, Samuel Ramey | Richard Bonynge, Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera | CD: London Cat: POCL 2891-3 | | 1986 | Maria Bieșu, Gegam Grigoryan, Ludmila Nam Georgi Seleznev | Mark Ermler, Orchestra and Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre | CD: Melodiya Cat: MCD 160 | | 1994 | Jane Eaglen, Vincenzo La Scola, Eva Mei, Dmitri Kavrakos | Riccardo Muti, Orchestra and chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Teatro Alighieri, Ravenna, VII 1994) | CD: EMI Cat: B008L41Z0Q | | 2001 | June Anderson, Shin Young Hoon, Daniela Barcellona, Ildar Abdrazakov | Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante, Verdi Festival Chorus (Recorded live, March 2001, Teatro Regio, Parma) | | DVD: TDK Cat: DV ONOR | | 2005 | Dimitra Theodossiou, Carlo Ventre, Nidia Palacios, Riccardo Zanellato | Giuliano Carella, Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Massimo Bellini (Catania) (Recorded live, June) | | DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33493 | | 2007 | Dimitra Theodossiou, Carlo Ventre, Daniela Barcellona, Simon Orfila | Paolo Arrivabeni, Fondazione Orchestra Regionale delle Marche, Coro Lirico Marchigiano "Vincenzo Bellini" (Recorded live, August 2007, Sferisterio Opera Festival, Macerata) | | DVD: Dynamic Cat: 33561 | | 2013 | Cecilia Bartoli, John Osborn, Sumi Jo Michele Pertusi | Giovanni Antonini, Orchestra La Scintilla, Zurich (playing on period instruments) | CD: Decca Cat: 0289 478 3517 2 | | 2015 | |Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Gubanova, Raymond Aceto | Renato Palumbo, Gran Teatre del Liceu orchestra and chorus (Kevin Newbury, stage director; recorded live, February 2015) | Blu-ray/DVD: C major Cat:737208 | | 2016 | Sonya Yoncheva, Joseph Calleja, Sonia Ganassi, Brindley Sherratt | Antonio Pappano, The Royal Opera orchestra and chorus (Àlex Ollé, stage director; recorded live, 26 September 2016) | HD video: Royal Opera Stream Blu-ray/DVD: Opus Arte Cat:OA1247D | | 2017 | |Sondra Radvanovsky, Joseph Calleja, Joyce DiDonato, Matthew Rose | Carlo Rizzi, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus (David McVicar, production; recorded live, 7 October 2017) | 1082339499}}); DVD (). | | 2018 | |Mariella Devia, Stefan Pop, Annalisa Stroppa, Riccardo Fassi | Andrea Battistoni, Teatro Carlo Felice orchestra and chorus (Teatrialchemici, Luigi di Gangi and Ugo Giacomazzi, stage direction) | DVD: Bongiovanni Cat: AB 20041 | | 2025 | Asmik Grigorian, Freddie De Tommaso, Aigul Akhmetshina, Tareq Nazmi | Francesco Lanzillotta, Theater an der Wien, Wiener Symphoniker, Vienna (Stage director: Vasily Barkhatov; recorded live, 23 February) | Streaming video: Arte | ::

Note: "Cat:" is short for catalogue number by the label company.

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  1. ''Norma'', Met Opera broadcast of 20 February 1937: {{OCLC
  2. [https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=19441230 ''Norma'', Metropolitan Opera House, 30 December 1944], Met Opera Database.
  3. Ardoin 1977, pp. 56–58: "Callas was in top vocal form, apart from the opening scene [with the aria 'Casta Diva']".
  4. Ardoin 1977, pp. 78–79: Callas sings Norma as "more the warrior than the woman".
  5. Ardoin 1977, p. 99: "closer to the London performance of 1952, and in several instances betters it. Norma the warrior is less dominant." Some stridency in top notes until the third [''sic''] act.
  6. Ardoin 1977, p. 106: Callas "in stupendous voice".
  7. ''Norma'', Teatro alla Scala studio recording, 5–12 September 1960: CD ({{OCLC. 456198404. 1374303459); Ardoin 1977, pp. 157–158: "This Norma is more giving [than in the 1954 EMI recording], more many-sided, more complex, and drawn in finer lines. 'Casta Diva', for example, is quieter, more mesmerizing (with with phrase endings exquisitely tapered into silence)".
  8. [https://ondemand.metopera.org/performance/detail/73401728-f4df-5af9-90a0-947c0302db8d ''Norma'' Met Opera, 17 February 1973], Met Opera on Demand; [https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=19730217 CID: 232540], Met Opera Database. Also available for streaming via [https://music.apple.com/ie/album/bellini-norma-recorded-live-at-the-met-february-17-1973/1059248571 Apple Music] and for download in the [[iTunes Store]].
  9. {{OCLC. 612621943.
  10. [[John Steane]], [https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/31682/page/111 "Not ringing my bel canto"], ''Gramophone'' (October 2006), p. 111. See also {{OCLC. 893638727.
  11. {{OCLC. 251853765.
  12. Joseph Newsome, [http://www.operatoday.com/content/2013/05/cecilia_bartoli.php "Cecilia Bartoli as Norma"], in ''Opera Today'', 30 May 2013.
  13. ''Norma'', Liceu, 2015: Blu-ray ({{ASIN. B01IQEGCGW); DVD ({{OCLC. 962186602).
  14. [https://www.rbo.org.uk/tickets-and-events/norma-2016-digital ''Norma'' (2016)"], Royal Ballet & Opera Stream. Also available via [https://www.medici.tv/en/operas/bellini-norma-royal-opera-antonio-pappano-sonya-yoncheva-alex-olle medici.tv].
  15. ''Norma'', Royal Opera, 2016: Blu-ray ({{OCLC. 1038020977); DVD ({{OCLC. 1011631803).
  16. [https://ondemand.metopera.org/performance/detail/00a55ba8-ef8d-586f-88bd-40618d0e0ae8 ''Norma'', Met Opera, 7 October 2017], Met Opera on Demand; [https://archives.metopera.org/MetOperaSearch/search.jsp?titles=Norma&exact_date=20171007 CID: 356753], Met Opera Database.
  17. ''Norma'', Met Opera, 2017: Blu-ray ({{OCLC. 1082339499); DVD ({{OCLC. 1082868346).
  18. [https://www.operaonvideo.com/norma-vienna-2025-asmik-grigorian-aigul-akhmetshina-freddie-de-tommaso-tareq-nazmi/ ''Norma'' Vienna 2025], Opera on Video, retrieved 19 July 2025; [https://browse.carnegiehallplus.com/detail/videos/opera-dance/video/6375066328112 Carnegie Hall+].

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