CD Decca Donizetti - Lucia Di Lammermoor ( Bonynge, Sutherland, Pavarotti ) CD + BluRay Audio

inregistrare din 1971
editia 2014

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Joan Sutherland - Lucia
Luciano Pavarotti - Edgardo
Sherill Milnes - Enrico
Nicolai Ghiaurov - Raimondo
Huguette Tourangeau - Alisa
Pier Francesco Poli - Normanno
Ryland Davies - Arturo

Orchestra Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden ( dirijor Richard Bonynge )

A splendid remastered limited edition Decca set starring Dame Joan Sutherland in 1971 in one of her most celebrated roles as Lucia from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor.

Fifty years ago the young soprano Joan Sutherland made one of the most sensational debuts in the history of opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. There she triumphed in the title role of Lucia in Donizetti's masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor. Sutherland sang Lucia hundreds of times around the world and it became one of her signature roles. If memory serves me she was dubbed La Stupenda after singing Handel’s Alcina at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Sutherland is sometimes described as the “ High Priestess of Bel Canto”. I recall tenor Luciano Pavarotti, who frequently sang with Sutherland, labelling her the “ Voice of the Century”.

To commemorate the fifty year anniversary since Sutherland’s auspicious debut as Lucia Decca has issued this newly remastered limited edition of the renowned 1971 Kingsway Hall recording. This is the three act Italian version of Lucia di Lammermoor. Sutherland is featured at the peak of her powers, accompanied by a stellar cast, notably Pavarotti, Milnes and Ghiaurov. The baton is held by Sutherland’s husband Richard Bonynge.

She had first recorded Lucia ten years earlier in 1961 at Rome with the Orchestra e coro dell' Accademia di Santa Cecilia Roma under Sir John Pritchard with Renato Cioni, Robert Merrill and Cesare Siepi. The set was one of the label’s ‘Legendary Performance’ series on Decca 467688. In this reissued and remastered 2009 Decca set a booklet note by session producer Christopher Raeburn explains that several sections from the manuscript score of Lucia are included in this 1971 Kingsway Hall recording. The new set also includes a bonus disc of excerpts from Sutherland’s earlier Lucia recordings. There are selections as Lucia from Sutherland’s famous 1959 Paris debut recital for Decca under conductor Nello Santi. Additionally there are scenes and arias from her first recording of Lucia under Pritchard at Rome in 1961.