Maria Callas sings "Casta Diva" (Bellini: Norma, Act 1) Known for her rich and colourful mezzo voice and magnetic stage presence, Cecilia Bartoli is one of opera’s most popular performers and an utter ...

Bellini’s very first opera, Adelson e Salvini ... Giuditta Pasta was the first singer to sing both Norma and Amina in La sonnambula, but the composer also worked with the famous French singer ...

quante volte from Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi, in the final of the 2009 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition. Giulietta loves Romeo, but is being forced to marry Tebaldo. In her ...

From the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, a new production of Bellini's Norma.

Marcella Sembrich as Rosina, photo: wikimedia She made her debut as an opera singer in Athens in 1877 as Elvira in The Puritans by Vincenzo Bellini. A year later she already had a contract with the ...

Known as one of the greatest opera singers in history ... her most famous works include Giacomo Puccini's "Tosca," Vincenzo ...

Where he led, Donizetti and Bellini followed. His father was the town trumpeter for Pesaro and played brass instruments in various theatres as well as doubling as a municipal inspector of ...

Again and again, albeit with uneven results, the singers rose to the challenge of soaring vocal lines, technical demands and ...