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Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor
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Special offer. 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... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 18th November 2010
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Special offer. 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... —
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Building a Library, October 2008, First Choice
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Building A Library, May 2025, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: I Due Foscari
Leyla Gencer (Lucrezia), Mirto Picchi (Jacopo), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (Francesco Foscari), Alessandro Maddalena (Jacopo Loredano), Ottorino Begali (Barbarigo), Marisa Salimbene (Pisana)
Teatro La Fenice, Tullio Serafin
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Special offer. 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... —
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Special offer. 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... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Maria Callas (Lucia), Gianni Raimondi (Edgardo), Rolando Panerai (Enrico), Antonio Zerbini (Raimondo Bidebent), Anna Maria Borrelli (Alisa), Piero de Palma (Arturo Bucklaw), Pietro Moccia (Normanno)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro di San Carlo, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
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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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Building a Library, October 2008, First Choice
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Special offer. Joan Sutherland - The Decca Recordings Volume 3: The Operas 1971-1988
Joan Sutherland (soprano), Richard Bonynge, Zubin Mehta
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Joan Sutherland (Lucia), Renato Cioni (Edgardo), Cesare Siepi (Raimondo), Robert Merrill (Enrico), Kenneth MacDonald (Arturo), Ana Raquel Satra (Alisa), Rinaldo Pelizzoni (Normanno)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, John Pritchard
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Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor
Beverly Sills (Lucia), Carlo Bergonzi (Edgardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico), London Symphony Orchestra, Thomas Schippers
