Lucia di Lammermoor
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Goings on About Town: Classical Music...Cesare Valletti in the legendary 1955 production (by Luchino Visconti) at La Scala. Mary Zimmerman, the daring director who turned "Lucia di Lammermoor" on its head last season, gives the old warhorse a revisionist treatment, working with two... In this article: The New Yorker, George Packer, E mail, DVD, Rusalka, La sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor, Madama Butterfly, and Il trovatore |
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Wikipedia | October 29, 2009
Ettore Bastianini
...role in Tchaikovsky's ''Mazeppa '' (1954). In 1953 Bastianini performed opposite Maria Callas for the first of many times as Enrico Asthon in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatro Comunale Florence. That same year he sang the role of Carlo...
In this article: Ettore Bastianini, La Scala, Don Carlo, Maria Callas, Rigoletto, and Salzburg Festival
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InRich Entertainment | April 03, 2008
(re)Defining role
...wanting more. And so they shall receive. Next Friday, Strauss Evrard returns to the Landmark Theater stage as she portrays the title role in Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor." The character is one of the defining bel canto...
In this article: Renata Scotto, Gaetano Donizetti, Joan Sutherland, and Maria Callas
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Bernard Ladysz
...then Poland) is a Polish opera singer (bass-baritone) and actor. His recordings include Lucia di Lammermoor (with Maria Callas) and The Devils of Loudon (with Tatiana Troyanos). 2000 - Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia...
In this article: Ministry of Culture, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy, Maria Callas, and Poland
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Telegraph.co.uk - All news | May 12, 2008
Leyla Gencer
...visited Edinburgh in 1972. When Callas declined to sing the title role in Lucia de Lammermoor in San Francisco in 1957, Kurt Alder, the director, noticed that the part was on a list of Leyla Gencer's repertoire. The only problem was that she...
In this article: Leyla Gencer, Maria Callas, La Scala, Anna Bolena, Gaetano Donizetti, Don Giovanni, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Renata Tebaldi, and Jerome Hines
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Margreta Elkins
...as Bertarido; and as Alisa to Sutherland's Lucia. Elkins also sang the role of Alisa opposite Maria Callas's Lucia for her 1959 recording of the opera with conductor Tullio Serafin. Callas had heard Elkins in rehearsal and chose her to...
In this article: Margreta Elkins, Joan Sutherland, Maria Callas, Carmen, Die Walkure, Richard Bonynge, and Brisbane
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New York Times | October 15, 2008
The Met Opera Will Offer Performances on the Web
...drawing on its vast historical archives and its continuing high-definition broadcasts. The catalog features classics like a "Lucia di Lammermoor" performance with Joan Sutherland and one with Maria Callas; a "Walkure" with Birgit Nilsson...
In this article: Metropolitan Opera, Carmen, Tristan und Isolde, I puritani, Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Walkure, Robert Dean Smith, and Sirius Satellite Radio
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Inva Mula
...song. Director Luc Besson adored Maria Callas, but her 1950s EMI Classics recording of "Lucia" wasn't clear enough to use on a film soundtrack, so Callas's agent Michel Glotz, who had produced this recording, introduced him to Mula. She had...
In this article: Inva Mula, Avni Mula, Paris, La rondine, Georges Bizet, Angela Gheorghiu, EMI Classics, and Maria Callas
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Bel canto
...the bel canto repertoire internationally. Today some of the most frequently performed operas, such as Rossini's The Barber of Seville and Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, are from the bel canto era. Mathilde Marchesi (1821-1913), a famous...
In this article: Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Richard Wagner, Joan Sutherland, Mathilde Marchesi, Italy, The Barber of Seville, and Luigi Rossi
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Nicola Rescigno
...from Francesca da Rimini (with Mario del Monaco and Magda Olivero, 1969), and complete sets of Tosca (with Mirella Freni, 1978) and Lucia di Lammermoor (with Edita Gruberova, 1983). Also available, on DVD, are a 1959 concert from Hamburg with...
In this article: Nicola Rescigno, Dallas Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, L'elisir d'amore, La traviata, Magda Olivero, Maria Callas, and Marilyn Horne
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Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor.
The story concerns a feud between two families, the Ashtons and the Ravenswoods. When the opera begins, the Ashtons are in the ascendancy and have taken possession of Ravenswood Castle, the ancestral home of their rivals. Edgardo (Sir Edgar), Master of Ravenswood and last surviving member of his family, has been forced to live in a lonely tower by the sea, known as the Wolf's Crag. The Ashtons, despite their success, are threatened by changing political and religious forces. Enrico (Lord Henry Ashton) hopes to gain the protection of the important Arturo (Lord Arthur Bucklaw) to whom he intends to marry his sister Lucia.
The opera premiered on September 26, 1835 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Donizetti revised the score for a French version which debuted on August 6, 1839 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris.
Very successful from creation, today it remains one of the leading bel canto operas.
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