Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo)
Chorus & Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2010
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Presto Favourites
As Callas's star waned so Joan Sutherland's rose. Her Lucia is different, moving the heart through beauty of tone. Sutherland recorded the role four times - the first two have vocal freshness...
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo)
Chorus & Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2010
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Presto Favourites
As Callas's star waned so Joan Sutherland's rose. Her Lucia is different, moving the heart through beauty of tone. Sutherland recorded the role four times - the first two have vocal freshness...
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- Pier Francesco Poli (tenor), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo-soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Ryland Davies (tenor), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass-baritone)
- Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
- Richard Bonynge
- Recorded: 1971-06-28
- Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London
Spotlight on this release
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Dame Joan Sutherland
18th Oct 2010
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week18th November 2010
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Presto Favourites
November 2008
As Callas's star waned so Joan Sutherland's rose. Her Lucia is different, moving the heart through beauty of tone. Sutherland recorded the role four times - the first two have vocal freshness but the third (1971) is best.
2010 edition
Though some of the girlish freshness of voice which marked the 1961 recording had disappeared by the 1971 set, Sutherland's detailed understanding was intensified. Power is there as well as delicacy, and the rest of the cast is first-rate.
