'Norma' was Vincenzo Bellini's eighth opera and the one that secured his fame and fortune as a composer. The conflict in the opera is between the native Druids of Britain and the Roman soldiers who are occupying the country. A secret love unites Druidic Norma with Sever a Roman by whom she has borne two children. Sever had loved Adalgisa a Roman priestess before he knew Norma but has not seen her for some time. When he meets her one day his love for her returns and they resolve to fly together. Norma curses Sever for his treachery and is about to kill her children but finally confides them to the care of her rival. She denounces Sever and he is seized by the Druids. Thefuneral pyre is lighted and ascending it Norma dies with her lover.This is the Schirmer edition of the Vocal Score in the original Italian text.

This opera was written when Bellini had established a name for himself with Norma and La Sonnambula and had just moved to Paris. The libretto is by Count Carlo Pepoli after the play Roundheads and Cavaliers byLancelot and Xavier. In it Elvira a Roundhead learns from her uncle Giorgio her father Lord Walton has agreed to let her marry her sweetheart Arturo She is overjoyed though Riccardo who also loved her is distraught. However Queen Henrietta Maria a Royalist is a miserable prisoner of Walton. In the chaos of the wedding preparation Arturo Elvira and Riccardo disguise her in Elvira's wedding veil and smuggle her out of the castle. The escape isdiscovered and Arturo is declared a traitor. He is chased through a furious storm but Riccardo and Giorgio help him escape and he finds Elvira in a wooded garden. He explains why he had to flee but her cries of fear and theapproaching army bring guards who arrest Arturo. He is saved moments before his execution by Cromwell's declaration of amnesty and all ends happily. This is the Schirmer edition of the Libretto in the original Italian withan English translation by William Weaver.

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