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Photos: Los Angeles Opera’s ‘Norma’

Angela Meade, center, as the title character of Bellini's "Norma," sings at a dress rehearsal. The Times' Mark Swed says Meade "offers a textbook example of how to handle every nuance of Bellini's exquisite melodic writing" for the character.

Angela Meade, center, as the title character of Bellini’s “Norma,” sings at a dress rehearsal. The Times’ Mark Swed says Meade “offers a textbook example of how to handle every nuance of Bellini’s exquisite melodic writing” for the character.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

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'Norma' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Lacey Jo Benter, left, as Clotilde, joins Angela Meade and child cast members at dress rehearsal. Times reviewer Swed says that “L.A. Opera boasts an exceptionally strong cast vocally.”

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

'Norma' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Morris Robinson, left, as druid high priest Oroveso, and Russell Thomas, kneeling, as Pollione, a Roman proconsul. Mark Swed says Thomas “presents an unusually believable combination of haughty authority and punishing vulnerability.”

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

'Norma' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Angela Meade, as Norma -- druid high priestess and daughter of Oroveso -- and Russell Thomas as Pollione.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

'Norma' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Angela Meade and Morris Robinson portray key figures in a production conducted by James Conlon and directed by Anne Bogart.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. Opera's 'Norma'

Angela Meade as Norma.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

'Norma' at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion

Members of the “Norma” cast prepare for the production.

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

L.A. Opera's 'Norma'

Angela Meade rehearses for role in an opera that reviewer Swed calls “one of the wonders of the bel canto repertory.”

  (Lawrence K. Ho / Los Angeles Times)

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