Vincenzo Bellini - Symphony from "Norma"

Vincenzo Bellini - Symphony from "Norma"


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Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (November 3, 1801 -- September 23, 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer. Known for his flowing melodic lines, Bellini was the quintessential composer of Bel canto opera.

Born in Catania, Sicily, Bellini was a child prodigy from a highly musical family and legend has it he could sing an aria of Valentino Fioravanti at eighteen months, began studying music theory at two, the piano at three, and by the age of five could, apparently, play well. His first composition is said to have dated from his sixth year. Regardless of the veracity of these claims, it is certain that Bellini grew up in a musical household and that a career as a musician was never in doubt.

Having learned from his grandfather, Bellini left provincial Catania in June 1819 to study at the conservatory in Naples, with a stipend from the municipal government of Catania. By 1822 he was in the class of the director Nicolò Zingarelli, studying the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of Haydn and Mozart. It was the custom at the Conservatory to introduce a promising student to the public with a dramatic work: the result was Bellini's first opera Adelson e Salvini an opera semiseria that was presented at the Conservatory's theater. Bianca e Gernando met with some success at the Teatro San Carlo, leading to an offer from the impresario Barbaia for an opera at La Scala. Il pirata was a resounding immediate success and began Bellini's faithful and fruitful collaboration with the librettist and poet Felice Romani, and cemented his friendship with his favored tenor Giovanni Battista Rubini, who had sung in Bianca e Gernando.

Bellini spent the next years, 1827--33 in Milan, where all doors were open to him. Sparking controversy in the press for its new style and its restless harmonic shifts into remote keys, La straniera (1828) was even more successful than Il pirata, and allowed Bellini to support himself solely by his opera commissions. The composer showed the taste for social life and the dandyism that Heinrich Heine emphasized in his literary portrait of Bellini (Florentinische Nächte, 1837). Opening a new theater in Parma, his Zaira (1829) was a failure at the Teatro Ducale, but Venice welcomed I Capuleti e i Montecchi, which was based on the same Italian sources as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

The next five years were triumphant, with major successes with his greatest works, La sonnambula, Norma and I puritani, cut short by Bellini's premature death.

Bellini died in Puteaux, near Paris of acute inflammation of the intestine, and was buried in the cemetery of Père Lachaise, Paris; his remains were removed to the cathedral of Catania in 1876. The Museo Belliniano housed in the Gravina Cruyllas Palace, in Catania, preserves memorabilia and scores.

[from Wikipedia]

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• Norma
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• Serafin

[jackbouregard]

ricordo ancora le 5000 lire con il volto di bellini......

[soylentgrun]

ehehe i migliori erano lui e volta (10.000)

[jackbouregard]

è stato uno scempio cambiare la lira, moneta che rappresenta tutta la nostra storia......non so se sia stato conveniente a livelo economico, ma la storia va rispettata...

[soylentgrun]

Non si può tenere una valuta solo per una questione storica, anche perchè a dirla tutta anche la lira è cambiata negli anni (ricordo, per esempio, le 5 lire col delfino o le 2 con la spiga) e poi con l'Euro abbiamo mantenuto i riferimenti storici ai singoli Paesi. E se non ci fosse stato l'Euro, avremmo avuto una moneta ancora più debole in vista della crisi...

[Catbo5]

can you please tell me when this performance was or who this performance is by? i know it was written by Bellini but who is performing it?

[soylentgrun]

if i'm not wrong, 1954

serafin conducting at la scala (milan, italy)

[cinegg]

Fu un grande compositore e un grande Catanese. W Vincenzo Bellini

[JeSuisUnEscargot]

hehehe my name is Norma. yes I am named after this opera :)

[Lenatyurnina]

восхитительная музыка!!!!!!!!!!!

[Francesko263]

oddio quanto mi mancano le vecchie 5mila lire...

[parksw70123]

How did i get here?

[blanc1989]

精锐，

[MrPeppyxX]

Chissà che esseri sono quelli che hanno votato pollice in giù...

[Pre114]

Norma is so underrated. I think it's one of the best Operas.

[guasc0]

@underrednu

Accidenti!!

Questo si! E' un degno commento!!

[jackbouregard]

@lozleigh ????

[lozleigh]

@soylentgrun Actually, I'm sure you'll agree it was more like 20,000 volts.