With Sondra Radvanovsky taking on the title role of the Druid priestess, one expected to settle in for a great night of bel canto vocalism at Saturday’s opening performance.

Norma’s funeral pyre failing to ignite at the climatic end of Bellini’s opera Saturday night at Lyric Opera provided an apt metaphor for the evening on the whole.

Tickets: General $27.Sondra Radvanovsky and Russell Thomas star in Bellini’s “Norma” at Lyric Opera. Sir David McVicar directs the production, having staged seven Met productions including Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Handel’s Giulio Cesare, the double bill of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, and Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, and Roberto Devereux.īrunch at TSL begins at 11:30am and is available during intermission. Beginning December 1, the production will star Angela Meade as Norma with Jamie Barton reprising the role of Adalgisa and led by Joseph Colaneri. On October 16 and 20, Marina Rebeka will make her Met role debut as the Druid priestess, Norma. Joyce DiDonato co-stars as Norma’s colleague and rival, Adalgisa, opposite Joseph Calleja as Pollione and Matthew Rose as Oroveso. The season opens with a new production of Bellini’s bel canto tragedy Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role, which she has sung to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago-making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. The Met Opera HD LIVE 2017/2018 season opens with a new staging of Bellini’s bel canto masterpiece Norma, directed by Sir David McVicar and starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role

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