But in Phelan's conception, Norma is very much the boss, a Boudica or Jeanne d'Arc, and certainly no mere spiritual ...

Bellini's most consistently inspired opera, director Orpha Phelan tells us, has been set on a pedestal. Well, a pedestal would have been good for the titular Druid high priestess to deliver her ...

The second act of Bellini’s Norma contains two dramatic twists—one an act of solidarity and the other an act of self-immolation. After revealing that Druid priestesses Norma and Adalgisa are each ...

The life of an opera singer is often a perilous one because it relies on that most fragile of all vessels, the human body. Palm Beach Opera faced that reality this week when Jessica Pratt, its star ...