Norma

Justin Way’s production of Bellini’s opera Norma returns to the Real with the musical direction of Francesco Lanzillotta and John Fiore. It is an opera within an opera in a production that deals with issues like sisterhood, religious fanaticism and maternity. It features artists of the calibre of Lisette Oropesa, Jessica Pratt, Lidia Fridman y Marina Rebeka, in the title role, con Aigul Akhmetshina, Rihab Chaieb, Raffaella Lupinacci, Javier Camarena, Dmitry Korchak, Francesco Demuro, Riccardo Fassi, Krzysztof Baczyk o Maharram Huseynov, among others. Libretto byFelice Romani, after Alexandre Soumet’s play Norma, ou l’infanticide (1831).