Rule It is a term that comes from Latin and means "squad" . A rule is a rule that must be respected and that allows to adjust certain behaviors or activities In the field of right , a rule is a legal precept.
For example: “The fine imposed on him was due to his driving at 120 kilometers per hour in a highway which, as a rule, allows a maximum speed of 110 kilometers per hour ”, “Excuse me, but you can't smoke here; it is an establishment norm ”, "This institution has rules that must be respected by all its members, without exceptions".
The legal norms can be divided into imperative standards (they are independent of the will of the subject since they cannot do without their content) and operative standards (They are expendable from the principle of autonomy of the will).
For the linguistics , the norm is the set of habitual uses that speakers of a language They perform in everyday life. Some theorists proposed other definitions, considering the usual grammatical constructions or prototypical realizations of phonetics as norms.
Rule It is also a female name quite frequent in Spain and Latin America . Argentinian actress Norma Aleandro and the spanish actress Duval Standard They are some of the public personalities that bear that name.
Rule Finally, it is the Latin name of a constellation found in the hemisphere south between Scorpio and Centaur . Carpenter's Rule , Rule , The Rules Game and Level are other names by which this constellation is known whose formal denomination is Norma et Regula .
Norma, Bellini's opera, and Cecilia Bartoli
Norma is the name that bears a tragedy lyrics written by Italian librettist Felice Romani and with music by renowned composer Vincenzo Bellini. The plot is based on an epic story created by the French poet Alexandre Soumet and is Among the greatest exponents of Belcantist music. Its premiere took place on December 26, 1831, and its name was "Casta diva", executed by the own Rule, became one of the most remembered of its century and its success has extended to the present.
As in many other cases, the essence of this opera has been lost, in pursuit of performances that favor the most celebrated figures in the world of music. lyric: the sopranos. In principle, Norma's role was conceived for a dark, low voice, generally associated with a mezzo-soprano; In the same way, Adalgisa, name of the character that the husband of the first falls in love with, was thought for a soprano. The story, however, has reversed the string types of these roles, allowing the singer in charge of representing Norma to use the tools of her voice to show off with ornaments and sharp notes that had not been written.
This is where the bright and controversial Italian mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli, who along with a group of leading artists has performed an unprecedented recording of the Opera Norma, trying to rediscover its true meaning, its original character, seeking to show the public the work that Bellini really wrote, almost two hundred years ago.
It is such a mission risky as exciting, thanks to which the entire world has the opportunity to hear for the first time endless details of the expressiveness and the range of emotions, which had been lost in time. A character which is usually shown as a Super womanFinally, it becomes flesh and blood again, fighting between duty and love.
