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Lucia di Lammermoor / Gaetano Donizetti.

Met Opera on Demand Available online

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848, composer, composer.
Contributor:
Callas, Maria, 1923-1977, performer, performer.
Campora, Giuseppe, performer, performer.
Sordello, Enzo, performer, performer.
Moscona, Nicola, performer, performer.
Cleva, Fausto, conductor, conductor.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer, performer.
Language:
Italian
Subjects (All):
Operas.
Live sound recordings--New York (State)--New York.
Live sound recordings.
New York (State)--New York.
Genre:
Sound recordings.
Operas.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 57 min., 43 sec.))
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1956]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
audio file streaming audio file
Summary:
This is Maria Callas's only broadcast from the stage of the Met. Hearing "La Divina" in an actual performance is a unique thrill, and Lucia is a huge part of the palpable Callas mystique. Donizetti's bloody tale of the Scottish lass torn from her true love and forced into an arranged marriage, only to go mad and murder her bridegroom on their wedding night, was the perfect vehicle for Callas's wizardry. Her haunting voice simply becomes Lucia's--every facet of emotion so pronounced that we cannot escape her spell.
Contents:
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
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 tratta avea col suo consorte
Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento!
Oh, giusto cielo!
Il dolce suono mi colpi di sua voce!
Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma
Ardon gli incensi
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.
Participant:
Maria Callas ; Giuseppe Campora ; Enzo Sordello ; Nicola Moscona ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Fausto Cleva, conductor.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1956 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Duration: 1 hr., 57 min., 43 sec.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396364
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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