COMPOSERS: Bellini
LABELS: DG
WORKS: Norma
PERFORMER: Beverly Sills, Shirley Verrett, Enrico di Giuseppe; New Philharmonia Orchestra/James Levine
CATALOGUE NO: 477 8186 Reissue (1974)
Beverley Sills as Norma trills and spills up and down the scales but is more Manhattan madam than anguished priestess. Levine tiptoes with trepidation. Christopher Cook