Giuditta Pasta
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Giuditta Angiola Maria Costanza Pasta was an Italian opera singer. A soprano, she has been compared to the 20th-century soprano Maria Callas.
Portrait held at Villa Roccabruna, by an unknown artist
As Anna Bolena (Anne Boleyn), 1830, by Karl Bryullov
Giuditta Pasta as Amina, May 1831 premiere
Pasta in 1821 by Gioacchino Giuseppe Serangeli
Norma (opera)
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Norma is a tragedia lirica or opera in two acts by Vincenzo Bellini with libretto by Felice Romani after the play Norma, ou L'infanticide by Alexandre Soumet. It was first produced at La Scala in Mila
Giuditta Pasta
…Teatro Carcano in 1830 (which was that composer's greatest success at that time), the Amina in Bellini's La sonnambula and the protagonist's part of his Norma (both in 1831), which became three of her major successes. Stendhal had argued persuasively in 1824 for the necessity of a score composed expressly for…
Domenico Donzelli, Giuditta Pasta, and Giulia Grisi (original cast)
Librettist Felice Romani
Giuditta Pasta, for whom the role of Norma was created
Poster advertising the 1831 premiere