It's Opera season at Burry Port again
Burry Port Opera's production this year will be Bellini's Norma. Performances are Wednesday 31st October, Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd November. All performances start at 7pm at Burry Port Memorial Hall. Norma was first performed in 1831; it is an opera in two acts. The production at Burry Port will be the second time the society has performed Norma; the previous production was in 1979. Story: A secret love unites Norma, a Druid priestess with Pollione the Roman Proconsul, father of her two children. Pollione has grown tired of the aging Druid and has fallen in love with Adalgisa a young temple virgin. Despite Adalgisa 's piety and virtue she agrees to flee to Rome with Pollione. Adalgisa in her innocence tells Norma of her love. Norma curses Pollione for his deceit and treachery. In her trauma Norma contemplates killing her two children in preference to abandoning them to Adalgisa, but in her love for them she finally consigns them to the...