The Met: Lucia di Lammermoor with Natalie Dessay.
For many of us,Natalie Dessay is the poster-face of madness in opera -- literally. In 2007, the Met plastered promotional posters for the 2007-08 season all over Manhattan featuring Ms. Dessay in character as Lucia Di Lammermoor. Ms. Dessay's haunted wide-eyed facial expression in her tattered wedding dress personified the demon-driven Lucia.
Despite these conditions, Lucia di Lammermoor would be Donizetti’s fiftieth (!) opera in seventeen years.Donizetti did not achieve acclaim until 1830 with his thirtieth opera, Anna Bolena at the Teatro Carcano, followed two years later by L’Elisir d’Amore (his thirty-ninth opera) this time at the Teatro Cannobbiana.He scored another hit with Lucrezia Borgia (his forty-fourth) in 1833 at.
Bonus DVD: Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor (mad scene), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Levine. Natalie Natalie Recording: Natalie Dessay: Italian Opera Arias.
Mariinsky Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor This is all about French soprano Natalie Dessay’s performance as Lucy, with top singing from Vladislav Sulimsky as Enrico. Richard Morrison. Saturday July.
The other famous piece from Lucia di Lammermoor is the sextet at the end of Act Two. This is the climax to the other two acts, and is one of the most powerful and dramatic moments of the opera. It begins with the entrance of Edgardo, as he enters the castle of the Lammermoor to find the entire Lammermoor clan gathered in honor of Lucia's wedding. The emotional conflict between the various.
For the label's fifth opera recording, Gergiev conducts Donizetti's masterpiece featuring a magnificent cast led by coloratura soprano Natalie Dessay. Donizetti's tragic opera in three acts depicts a family feud set in the Lammermuir Hills of Scotland. The opera was premiered on 26th September 1835 at the Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, with the coloratura soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani in.
Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti in 1835. Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a.