**Thank you to Nick for sharing this audio with me!!**


**Thumbnail colorized by me. I have no clue if these are the right colors of Tourangeau or Van Limpt's costumes. I completely guessed the colors based on other Adalgisa and Pollione costumes from other performances with Sutherland and hoped for the best, as there were no color photos from this production to go off of! Feel free to let me know the colors if I am totally wrong lol, and I'll make a new thumbnail**

This performance of Norma takes place at the Circustheater in Scheveningen, The Hague, Holland, on December 26th, 1978. Joan Sutherland is in great voice here. This production had a mini tour in Holland from Amsterdam to Scheveningen to Rotterdam and finally Utrechet. (Would love to hear those performances!) One of the Amsterdam performances has even been filmed (not professionally) and posted here on YouTube. Go check it out! The cast is in great voice here. Joan Sutherland, dare I say, is in even better voice here than in the 1978 Sydney production. I honestly wish one of the 1978 Holland performances were filmed over the Sydney performances. Van Limpt makes a nice good Pollione. Much stronger than some other tenors. Tourangeau sounds way different here. Her voice is still recognizable, but due to feeling ill, during this performance, she pulls off some 'vocal trickery' for some parts. Her middle voice is much weaker here compared to the Amsterdam footage a couple of days prior, which is why she holds back more here. Her high notes above high A have oddly improved in her later career for some reason... Personally, I prefer Tourangeau as Adalgisa in the 1970 Philadelphia and 1972 San Francisco Norma productions; her voice, in general, is much stronger there.

Being a broadcast performance, no pitch or sound quality editing had to be done (yay).

Enjoy!




Cast:


Norma: Joan Sutherland

Adalgisa: Huguette Tourangeau

Pollione: Adriaan van Limpt

Oroveso: Willard White

Flavio: Henk Kooymans

Clotilde: Urpu Nuottamo

Conductor: Richard Bonynge

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