Beverly Sills - NORMA 1

NORMA An Opera in 2 Acts Music by Vincenzo Bellini Libretto by Felice Romani English Translation by William Ashbrook First Performance Teatro alia Scala, Milan, Italy-December 26,1831 Recording Producer: David Mottley Recording Engineer: Michael Gray Recorded at EMI Studios London, England, August 1973 Album Coordinator: Marty Goldstein THE CAST Norma (High priestess) ………… Beverly Sills Adalgisa (Priestess) …………… Shirley Verrett Pollione (Roman Proconsul) ……… Enrico Di Giuseppe Oroveso (High priest) …………… Paul Plishka Clotilde (Nursemaid) …………… Oelia Wallis Flavio (Pollione’s centurion) ……… Robert Tear Druids, Druid warriors, Druid priests & priestesses New Philharmonia Orchestra James Levine, Conductor