"The title role in Norma is one of opera's supreme dramatic and vocal challenges. In January 2006 Edita Gruberova, today's bel canto "prima donna assoluta", performed this role on stage for the first time in a new production that left critics and audiences searching for new superlatives. "Gruberova delivers her own wholly individual interpretation...she translates Bellini's interplay of pain, love and desire into physically palpable inner and outer drama. Immensely moving."(Die Welt) (Note from cover sleeve).