Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor: the masterpiece saved.
Lucia di Lammermoor. Overview; Synopsis; Cast; Gallery; Overview. A dramma tragico in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, set in Lammermuir Hills of 17th-century Scotland (Lammermoor). Returning back to Teatru Astra, after being produced way back in February.
Heading an impressive list of debutantes, the French soprano Natalie Dessay confers on Donizetti’s ill-fated heroine a wealth of dramatic intelligence, crystalline vocal resources, and a unique.
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor. Culled from concerts conducted last year, this recording includes rarely heard scenes. Share on Twitter (opens new window) Share on Facebook (opens new window.
Bloody Natalie Dessay in San Francisco's Lucia di Lammermoor 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.
Lucia di Lammermoor Dessay; Beczala, Voropaev, Sulimsky, Bannik; Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Gergiev. Text and translation. Mariinsky MAR0512 (2) DONIZETTI T his new Lucia, featuring a conductor not known for his interes.
Natalie Dessay is a known quantity as Lucia: sensitive, fragile, using her small but colorful voice and sharp diction to show us poor Lucia’s plight. And indeed, her Mad Scene is marvelous, with the glass harmonica adding just the eerie touch Donizetti had hoped for. Dessay is just as fine in her confrontation with her brother at the start of Act 2, sounding like a wounded creature on the.
Natalie Dessay dazzled audiences on opening night in 2007 as the doomed title character of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” In 2011, she gave audiences around the world a final chance to see her ravishing Lucia before retiring. Ms. Dessay did not disappoint. Here, she is even better than she was when Mary Zimmerman’s popular Victorian production debuted. The cast is rounded out by a.