Casta Diva

July 11, 2011 at 08:20 PM ·

Casta Diva is an aria for soprano from Bellini's opera Norma.  I couldn't find a violin arrangement on the Sheet Music Plus website,

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/welcome

but you could get a version for soprano with piano reduction and play the soprano part on the violin.  You would have to tinker with bowings, slurring more than what's printed in the soprano part.  That's probably what Joshua Bell did (no doubt with some inspired violinistic embellishments of his own). 

Some examples of collections that include Casta Diva:

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Favorite-Soprano-Arias/19219457

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/title/Prima-Donna-s-Album/3162849

There are also some separate editions of just Casta Diva for soprano alone and for soprano with piano reductions. 

July 11, 2011 at 09:49 PM ·

Louise if you Google "casta diva violin' it points to a few websites, like www.sheetmusicfox.com for which you have to download the Fox Tab PDF converter. It may have what you are looking for.