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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:
Sutherland, Joan, 1926-2010, performer, performer.
Kónya, Sándor, 1923-2002, performer, performer.
Herlea, Nicolae, performer, performer.
Giaiotti, Bonaldo, performer, performer.
Varviso, Silvio, 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., 50 min., 30 sec.))
Other Title:
Met Opera on Demand.
Place of Publication:
[New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1964]
Language Note:
Sung in Italian.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
digital
audio file streaming audio file
Summary:
It was a performance of Lucia that literally made Joan Sutherland a star overnight. And no wonder. Her enormous, sumptuous voice seemed made for the role of the hapless young woman, driven mad by her fate. When Sutherland sang Lucia's famous "mad scene" it drove audiences, well, mad. Her cascading vocal embellishments seemed both unending and superhuman, but she tossed them off with the élan of an Olympic gymnast dazzling the crowd with a gold-medal performance. But then, Sutherland's voice was always golden.
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
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.
Participant:
Joan Sutherland ; Sándor Kónya ; Nicolae Herlea ; Bonaldo Giaiotti ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Silvio Varviso, conductor.
Notes:
Recorded live in 1964 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Duration: 1 hr., 50 min., 30 sec.
Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
OCLC:
859396608
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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