Word: norma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NORMA EPPINGA Grand Rapids...
...NORMA HALL...
...considered Rossini's crowning triumph. Written at fever pitch in just 33 days, it shines with bel canto flourishes-fluid melodies, runs, cadenzas, arpeggios-and a soprano role that is one of the most difficult in all opera. "Semiramide," says La Scala's artistic director. "is Norma's grandmother." Much of the dramatic singing is in the most difficult vocal range, and the coloratura passages are burdened with drama. With the coloratura parts too dramatic and the dramatic parts too coloratura, it is simply too difficult; Paris saw it last in 1874, La Scala...
...queen's coronet padded with Band-Aids to make it bearably wearable, Argentina's Norma Beatriz Nolan, 24, Miss...
...prosaic moniker alongside such inspired noms de dishabille as Gaza Stripp, Helen Bedd, and the ecclesiastical ecdysiast. Norma Vincent Peel...