Tim Ashley 🏳️🌈 💙🤎💜<p>Vincenzo Bellini was (probably) born <a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1801, in Catania. </p><p>Maria Callas and Franco Corelli sing In mia man alfin to sei from Norma, in Trieste in 1953, conducted by Antonino Votto. It doesn't get much better than this, really.</p><p>Norma remains one of the supreme tragic statements in opera, and Wagner once said it was written not by Bellini, but by God.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBJvVoQg7TM" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=uBJvVoQg7T</span><span class="invisible">M</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/classicalmusic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>classicalmusic</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.bau-ha.us/tags/Bellini" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bellini</span></a></p>