Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tullio Serafin

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tullio Serafin

Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tullio Serafin
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Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Conductor: Tullio Serafin
Orchestra: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra
Performer: Anna Maria Canali
Performer: Gino Sarri
Performer: Giuseppe di Stefano
Performer: Maria Callas
Performer: Raffaele Arie
Performer: Tito Gobbi
Performer: Valiano Natali
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-01-11
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Preludio
  2. Percorrete Le Spiagge Vicine
  3. Tu Sei Turbato!...E N'ho Ben Donde
  4. Cruda, Funesta Smania
  5. Il Tuo Dubbio E Omai Certezza
  6. La Pietade In Suo Favore
  7. Maestoso
  8. Ancor Non Giunse!
  9. Regnava Nel Silenzio
  10. Quando Rapito In Estasi
  11. Egli S'Avanza
  12. Sulla Tomba Che Rinserra
  13. Qui Di Sposa Eterna Fede
  14. Ah, Talor Del Tuo Pensiero
  15. Veranno E Te Sull'Aure
Music CD 2
  1. Moderato/Lucia Fra Poco A Te Verra
  2. Appressati, Lucia
  3. Il Pallor Fuesto, Orrendo...A Ragion Mi Fe' Spietato
  4. Nobil Sposo...Cessa, Cessa!
  5. Soffriva Nel Pianto
  6. Che Fia?...Suonar Di Giubilo
  7. Se Tradirmi Tu Potrai
  8. Per Te D'Immenso Giubilo...Per Poco Fra Le Tenebre
  9. Dov'E Lucia?...Qui Giungere Or La Vedrem
  10. Ecco Il Tuo Sposo
  11. Chi Mi Frena In Tal Momento
  12. T'Allontana, Sciagurato...Rispettate In Me Di Dio
  13. Sconsigliato! In Queste Porte Chi Ti Guida?
  14. Esci, Fuggi, Il Furor Chem M'Accende
  15. D'Immenso Giubilo
  16. Ah!...Deh, Cessate Que! Contento!...Dalle Stanze Ove Lucia
  17. Oh! Qual Funesto Avvenimento!
  18. Oh Giusto Cielo!...Il Dolce Suono
  19. Ohime! Sorge Il Tremendo
  20. Ardon Gli Incensi; Splendon Le Sacre Faci
  21. Spargi D'Amaro Pianto
  22. Maestoso...Tombe Degli Avi Miei
  23. Fra Poco A Me Ricovero
  24. O, Meschina! O, Fato Orrendo!
  25. Dove Corri, Sventurato?
  26. Tu Che A Dio Spiegasti I'Ali
  27. Che Facesti?

Music reviews of Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tullio Serafin

Music Review: The greatest studio-recording of the delirious maiden
Rating: 5 Stars

Lucia di Lammermoor is a complex role that has been portrayed by a varity of voice-types. Canaries like Pons, Carosio, Dessay, Jo and others, dramatic sopranos d'agilita like Callas and young Sutherland and today L'ubica Vargicova, lyric coloraturas like Sills, Scotto and Kohutkova and even spintos like Caballe and Rost who sang it come scritto, lower and without the ornamentations later added. All of these have their merits, it is my opinion though that a dramatic soprano d'agilita can do it justice incredibly. I find the role to be too demanding for canaries because it demands a rich middle and dark colours also. Passionate lyric coloraturas like Sills sound fabulous as Lucia as well because of their feminity, innocence and sweetness. Maria Callas, who was singing Tosca, Gioconda, Lady Macbeth and Norma at the time added Lucia to her repertoire in 1952, singing it in Mexico City after having sung a part of the madscene in a concert ealier. (A recording exists) The enthralled audience adored her so much and wouldn't stop hailing their divine one until the entire madscene had to be repeated, a feat no other Lucia achieved before or after. What kind of a Lucia is Callas? Well, a very unique one as one might expect of La Divina. Listening to "Regnava nel silenzio" you'll hear not only maiden-like beauty but an alarming, fearful colour of angst and beginning madness. It's only hinted, not overdone. But knowing Lucia's fate it's very moving. The coloratura in the cabaletta "Quanto rapito in estasi" presents us with another voice. Where Callas had sounded dark, melancholic and deep in the aria here she was glowing, shining and glittering but never chirping. Her top-registers was as steady as her rich middle then and the high note ending the cabaletta is lush, steady and beautiful. In the love-duet with honey-voiced di Stefano as Edgardo the angst returns, mixed with her pure and passionate love for Edgardo. The unisono of these two stunning voices has not been equalled since, it was a legendary partnership. In the duet with her brother Enrico Lucia's voice has grown darker, more afraid and closer to the madness soon to follow, climaxed in the tormented outcry "La tomba, la tomba m'aspetta!" (The tomb, the tomb is awaiting me!). The stretta of the duet, Enrico's harshness and Lucia's breakdown as she begs God to let her die culminates in a fabulous note in alto.
The wedding-scene has a feel of doom I haven't heard again before or after. Callas' voice is almost white with pain and fear and when Edgardo comes she breaks down, knowing now that her brother has betrayed her. Being spurned by a grief-stricken Edgardo we hear (!) Lucia breaking into a million pieces --> Going mad. The madscene itself, with the glorious "play" (Who calls it that?) with the flute is so hauntingly beautiful and touching. Mistaking the flute for her lover's voice Lucia, who has just murdered her husband, deliriously sings of the joy awaiting her and Edgardo. One cannot help but weep for her, this pure, loving soul that was crushed by ambition and hatred of others. The fireworks, high notes, cadenzas and coloratura of the cabaletta climaxes in a huge, glorious E-flat. A fabulous recording of bel canto, not only beautiful or pretty but haunting and moving.
Di Stefano sings a passionate, ultimate Edgardo and Gobbi sounds idiomatic, dramatic and properly enraged as Enrico. Serafin shows all other maestri how bel canto MUST BE conducted. True there are some cuts but nothing that I personally miss a lot. In short: It's the best studio-recording of Lucia ever!!!!
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