Lucia di Lammermoor Superstar soprano Natalie Dessay lavishes her renowned vocal technique and acting prowess on the iconic title role. Though Lucia and Edgardo (Giuseppe Filianoti) are deeply in love, Lucia’s malevolent brother Enrico (Mariusz Kwiecien) forces her to marry one of his political allies.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2007 CD release of Italian Opera Arias on Discogs.Lucia di Lammermoor remains one of Donizetti 's most popular works. In the latter part of 1834, Donizetti signed a contract with the Royal Theaters of Naples to compose three operas, the first of which he was to have ready by July of 1835.Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” is one of the great star turns in the operatic repertory, yet at the same time it is a quintessential ensemble opera, whose sextet is perhaps the most famous opportunity in all of opera for the lead soprano, tenor, baritone and bass to join voices in a single number (sharing the. Read more Dessay’s Lucia di Lammermoor Delights in San Francisco.
Superstar soprano Natalie Dessay lavishes her renowned vocal technique and acting prowess on the iconic title role. Though Lucia and Edgardo (Giuseppe Filianoti) are deeply in love, Lucia’s malevolent brother Enrico (Mariusz Kwiecien) forces her to marry one of his political allies. Lucia’s resulting emotional collapse culminates in one of.
Through the decades, the touchstone role of Lucia in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” has been sung in San Francisco by Lily Pons, Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills and other luminary sopranos.
Featuring the most famous mad scene in the repertory and full of ravishingly beautiful melodies, this timeless bel canto masterpiece evokes the passion and desperation of a woman used by her brother as a political pawn. Superstar Natalie Dessay owns this virtuosic role. Also starring Giuseppe Filianoti, Gabriele Viviani and Oren Gradus.
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Lucia di Lammermoor is a great opera -- Donizetti's best opera (equaled -- but not surpassed -- only by the finest bel canto operas of Bellini). And Beverly Sills performance of Lucia is definitive -- the finest yet recorded. Sills gives a superb performance, combining the vocal skills of Sutherland with the dramatic intensity of Callas. The.
Just a quickie from the openimg night of Lucia di Lammermoor at the San Francisco Opera, where after a wobbly start Natalie Dessay stormed through the title role, every note in place, with exquisite poise and total control. If she (surprisingly) wasn't 100% convincing dramatically, that was down to the production, curiously static, rather undirected, set entirely on a heather carpeted.
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Find Natalie Dessay credit information on AllMusic. Coloratura soprano Dessay is noted for brilliant operatic portrayals with strong characterizations; she also sings choral and solo music.
This page lists all recordings of Spargi d'amaro pianto (from Lucia di Lammermoor) (Mad Scene - ending) by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848).
Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor Live from the Met Saturday 8 March 2008 18:30-22:15 (Radio 3) Donizetti's famous tragic heroine is portrayed by one of her greatest recent interpreters, French.
Donizetti's next work was Maria Stuarda, followed the same year by Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), which became an internationally recognized masterpiece. The Elizabethan tragedy Roberto Devereux (1837) completed his trilogy of operas that chronicle the English court from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I.
Natalie Dessay had her long awaited debut at San Francisco Opera last night in the opening of Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice has a marvelous incandescent quality, but also has a hard edge that borders on vulgar. Her movements are light and her acting is strong.
The emotionally fragile Lucia is driven to madness when manipulated to marry a man she does not love. Featuring the most famous mad scene in the repertory and full of ravishingly beautiful melodies, this timeless bel canto masterpiece evokes the passion and desperation of a woman used by her brother as a political pawn. Soprano superstar.
Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti's famed saga of a woman driven mad by her arranged marriage, features celebrated French coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay, whose vocal agility and dramatic charisma have established her as one of the role's foremost interpreters.