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Lucia di Lammermoor / Gaetano Donizetti.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

Met Opera on Demand
Format:
Video
Author/Creator:
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010, performer, performer.
Kraus, Alfredo, performer, performer.
Elvira, Pablo, 1937-2000, performer, performer.
Plishka, Paul, 1941- performer, performer.
Bonynge, Richard, conductor, conductor.
Donnell, Bruce, director, director.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Language:
English
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Genre:
Video recordings.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 16 min., 33 sec.)) : sound, colo
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1982]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian; English subtitles.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
video file streaming video file
Summary:
This telecast offers a rare opportunity to see the legendary Joan Sutherland in the role that first catapulted her to international stardom. She drove audiences wild by the way her opulent voice caressed the music's long phrases and sprinted effortlessly through the fiendish runs, trills, embellishments and stratospheric high notes. One of the glories of the operatic world, her portrayal of Donizetti's hapless heroine is a multifaceted and moving characterization. The incomparable tenor Alfredo Kraus is Edgardo, the man Lucia loves but cannot have.
Contents:
Opening credits
Percorrete
Percorriamo, le spiagge vicine
Tu sei turbato!
E n'ho ben d'onde
Cruda, funesta smania
La pietade in suo favore
Ancor non giunse?
Regnava nel silenzio alta la notte bruna
Quando, rapito in estasi
Egli s'avanza
Lucia, perdona se ad ora inusitata
Sulla tomba che rinserra il tradito genitore
Qui di sposa eterna fede
Veranno a te sull'aure
Lucia fra poco a te verrà
Tremante l'aspetto
Appressati, Lucia
Il pallor funesto, orrendo
Soffriva nel pianto
Un folle t'accese
Che Fia!
Se tradirmi tu potrai
Ah! cedi, cedi
Al ben de' tuoi qual vittima
Per te d'immenso giubilo
Per poco fra le tenebre
Dov'è Lucia?
Piange la madre estinta
Chi mi frena in tal momento
T'allontana, sciagurato
Esci, fuggi, il furor che mi accende
D'immenso giubilo s'innalzi un grido
Dalle stanze, ove Lucia
Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento!
Oh, giusto cielo!
Il dolce suono mi colpi di sua voce!
Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma
Ardon gli incensi
S'avanza Enrico!
Spargi d'amaro pianto
Tombe degli avi miei
Fra poco a me ricovero
Oh, meschina! Oh, fato orrendo!
Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali
Bows and closing credits.
Participant:
Joan Sutherland ; Alfredo Kraus ; Pablo Elvira ; Paul Plishka ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Richard Bonynge, conductor.
Credits:
Director, Bruce Donnell.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1982 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396093
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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