Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Lucia), Piotr Beczala (Edgardo), Vladislav Sulimsky (Enrico), Dmitry Voropaev (Arturo), Ilya Bannik (Raimondo), Zhanna Dombrovskaya (Alisa) & Sergei Skorokhodov (Normanno)
Mariinsky Orchestra & Chorus, Valery Gergiev
Everything Dessay does is lovely, but there is a lack of the desperation which should pervade the role...[Beczala is] actually more moving and Italianate than Dessay. Still, as post-Maria Callas... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 1st August 2011
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2011, Editor's Choice
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedMaria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Raffaele Arié, Valiano Natali, Anna Maria Canali, Gino Sarri
Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin
Today, for a very modest price, all lovers of bel canto operas and their performance on record can listen and make their own judgement on what was, without doubt, a seminal recording of the... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2008, First Choice
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo)
Chorus & Orchestra of Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
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... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2010
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Sherrill Milnes (Enrico), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Raimondo), Ryland Davies (Arturo), Huguette Tourangeau (Alisa), Pier Francesco Poli (Normanno)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Richard Bonynge
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... — More…
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Coming soon. Joan Sutherland: The Operas 1959-1970
Joan Sutherland (soprano), Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Richard Bonynge, John Pritchard, Ferdinand Leitner, Adrian Boult, Nino Sanzogno
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Sesto Bruscantini (Enrico), Renata Scotto (Lucia), Alfredo Kraus (Edgardo), Paolo Washington (Raimondo)
Orchestra e Coro Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Bruno Rigacci
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedMaria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Raffaele Arie
Florence Maggio Musicale Orchestra, Tullio Serafin
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Special offer. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Maria Callas (Lucia), Rolando Panerai (Enrico), Eugenio Fernandi (Edgardo), Giuseppe Modesti (Raimondo), Dino Formichini (Arturo), Elvira Galassi (Alisa), Valiano Natali (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus Roma della Rai, Tullio Serafin
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Normanno), Ana Raquel Satra (Alisa)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir John Pritchard
Sutherland enthusiasts will be thrilled, as indeed I am, by the sheer beauty and power of the singing, by the soprano's total command of the technical requirements the role calls for, and by... — More…
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Maria Callas (Lucia), Giuseppe di Stefano (Edgardo), Tito Gobbi (Enrico), Raffaele Arie (Raimondo), Valiano Natali (Arturo), Anna Maria Canali (Alisa), Gino Sarri (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin
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