Franck Ferville

Rebeka’s run at La Scala is the fourth and final high-profile Norma revival this spring; parterre box has previously featured samples of debutantes Asmik Grigorian and Federica Lombardi and Rachel Willis-Sorensen also cut the mistletoe for the first time in Berlin in April.

Rebeka is, of course, the most experienced in the role; she has performed it since 2016 and recently released a studio recording. New York heard Rebeka’s Norma twice in 2017, the important soprano’s most recent performances there to date. She will be La Scala’s first Norma since Montserrat Caballé in 1977.

Today’s clip features Rebeka in a performance of Don Carlos recorded in Paris earlier this year, a performance about which Nigel Wilkinson concluded here that Rebeka “was simply sensational, vocally and dramatically […] she may well be the Elisabeth of the present day.”

About that and much more cher public can opine post hence, and her meneghina Norma can be judged in real time when it is broadcast on Friday.

Verdi: Don Carlos, “Toi qui sus le neant”

Marina Rebeka

Conductor: Simone Young
Opéra National de Paris
April 2025
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