Live via Satellite in High Definition from NYC’s Metropolitan Opera … The Live at the Met season opens with a new production of Vincenzo Bellini’s masterpiece Norma, starring Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role of the Druid priestess and Joyce DiDonato as her rival, Adalgisa – a casting coup for bel canto fans. Radvanovsky has sung the role to acclaim at the Met in 2013, as well as at the Canadian Opera Company, San Francisco Opera, Bavarian State Opera, Gran Teatre de Liceu, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, making her one of the world’s leading interpreters of the iconic title character. Tenor Joseph Calleja is Pollione, Norma’s unfaithful lover; and Carl Rizzo conducts. Sir David McVicar’s evocative production sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.