Bellini's most consistently inspired opera, director Orpha Phelan tells us, has been set on a pedestal. Well, a pedestal would have been good for the titular Druid high priestess to deliver her ...
Salome Jicia surmounts every vocal challenge of the role. She is well matched with Mario Chang, William Guanbo Su and Siobhan Stagg ...
Irish National Opera’s new production of Bellini’s Norma at the Gaiety Theatre showcases exceptional vocal performances and a ...
The curtain lifts on a scrap-metal rampart, atop which sits a lookout post, a weak searchlight sweeping the dark. In Vincenzo Bellini's 1831 original, the chorus of soldiers we meet are warlike ...