A convincing Norma in Reggio Calabria

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 04 November 2018

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Reviewed at Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria on 2 November 2018

Bellini, Norma

Valtcheva, Viliana, Conductor

Renato Bonajuto, Director

Marily Santoro, Norma

Francesca Romana Tiddi, Adalgisa

Ryu, Davide, Pollione

Stefania Campicelli, Clotilde

Nino Mauceri, Flavio

Evgeniy Stanimirov, Oroveso

Coro Lirico Francesco Cilea

Orchestra del Francesco Cilea

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.

A convincing Norma at the Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria