Sopranos who can sing Bellini's Norma - really sing the monstrous role - are nearly as scarce as icebergs in the desert. She was partnered inequitably here by Aleksandrs Antonenko as Norma's lover, Pollione, and Kate Aldrich as her rival, Adalgisa. James Morris, portraying Oroveso, Norma's priestly-basso father, looks bored and sounds creaky. In all, a rather bad Norma salvaged, to a degree, by a very good Norma.
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