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Vincenzo BELLINI (1801-1835)
Norma (1831)
Gina Cigna (Norma, soprano), Tancredi Pasero (Oroveso, bass), Giovanni Breviario (Pollione, tenor), Emilio Renzi (Flavio, tenor), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa, mezzo-soprano), Adriana Perris (Clotilde, soprano), Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro dell’EIAR di Torino/Vittorio Gui
Rec: Teatro Nuovo, Turin, 25th August-7th September 1937
WARNER FONIT "CETRA OPERA COLLECTION" 0927 43646-2 [2 CDs: 70:08+69:55]



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This was the first near-complete Norma on disc (it combines some then-traditional cuts with a few more excisions dictated by side-lengths). It is a relief to find that the 1937 sound, as restored here, is no worse than that of many Cetra recordings of 15 years