Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor Joan Sutherland

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848): Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1
• 1Preludio - Percorrete le spiaggie vicine04:48
• 2Tu sei turbato!02:49
• 3Cruda, funesta smania04:16
• 4La pietade in suo favore03:32
• 5Ancor non giunse!04:26
• 6Regnava nel silenzio04:08
• 7Quando rapito in estasi04:09
• 8Egli s'avanza02:44
• 9Sulla tomba che rinserra02:51
• 10Qui di sposa eterna...Ah! Verrano a te sull'aure07:01
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2
• 11Lucia, fra poco a te verrà03:07
• 12Appressati, Lucia...Il pallor funesto, orrendo05:51
• 13Soffriva nel pianto03:28
• 14Che fia01:25
• 15Se tradirmi tu potrai03:15
• 16Ebben? - Di tua speranza02:50
• 17Ah! cedi, cedi02:25
• 18Al ben de'tuoi qual vittima03:46
• 19Per te d'immenso giubilo03:32
• 20Dov'è Lucia?04:26
• 21Chi mi frena in tal momento03:41
• 22T'allontana sciagurato05:46
• Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3
• 23Orrida è questa notte02:45
• 24Qui del padre ancor respira07:37
• 25D'immenso giubilo01:43
• 26Ah! cessate quel contento03:34
• 27Oh! qual funesto avvenimento!02:28
• 28Oh, giusto cielo!...Il dolce suono03:29
• 29Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma08:57
• 30S'avanza Enrico03:15
• 31Spargi d'amore pianto03:50
• 32Si tragga altrove02:08
• 33Tombe degli avi miei03:57
• 34Fra poco a me ricovero03:02
• 35Oh meschina!04:30
• 36Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali04:58
• Total Runtime02:20:29

Info zu Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

Literally meaning ‘colouring’, the term refers to particularly high-octane vocal gymnastics at the top of a soprano’s register, designed to challenge the performer to their limits and wow audiences in the process. Dame Joan became famous for her performances of the Mad Scene from this Donizetti opera; it remains perhaps the greatest operatic challenge for any coloratura soprano today.

While the music in Lucia di Lammermoor is both extraordinarily accomplished and structurally coherent, the same cannot be said of the plot. Donizetti wasn’t the first composer to set a farcical, disjointed story to music – and he surely won’t be the last – but this one really stretches things to the limit. The opera follows the misfortunes of two feuding Scottish families, a political mission to France, forgery, a forced marriage, utter madness and suicide.

Aside from the famous Mad Scene in the third act, the other crowning glory of Lucia di Lammermoor is the glorious Sextet, which, when performed well, cannot fail to send shivers down the listener’s spine. Donizetti skilfully ensures all six characters have individual musical lines and distinct phrasing to distinguish them from the other five performers. As a result, within this heavenly blend of sound, there are also six different melodic ideas, all woven together to create something truly magical.


“Though some of the girlish freshness of voice which marked the 1961 recording had disappeared by the 1971 set, Sutherland's detailed understanding was intensified. Power is there as well as delicacy, and the rest of the cast is first-rate.” (The Pinguin Guide)

Joan Sutherland, soprano (Lucia)
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor (Edgardo)
Sherrill Milnes, baritone (Enrico)
Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass (Raimondo)
Ryland Davies, tenor (Arturo)
Huguette Tourangeau, mezzo (Alisa)
Pier Francesco Poli, tenor (Normanno)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Richard Bonynge, conductor

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