Natalie Dessay - Il Dolce Suono (Mad Scene) - Donizetti.

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Natalie Dessay (French:. Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Violetta in La traviata and added baroque music to her repertoire. Since retiring from opera stage on 15 October 2013 she has pursued a career in theatre and in concert, where she now performs, besides classical, genres such as jazz and chansons. She has made dozens of recordings under the EMI Classics and Virgin Classics label, and.

Lucia di Lammermoor - Synopsis The action takes place in the Lowlands of Scotland in the 16th century. The ruthless and manipulative Enrico (Henry) Ashton has obtained the estates of Ravenswood, ancestral home of Edgardo (Edgar), who now lives in poverty in the crumbling cliff-side castle of Wolf’s Crag.

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The Mariinsky label s opera recordings have garnered acclaim and awards from around the world, most recently for Valery Gergiev s recording of Parsifal released in 2010. For the label s fifth opera, Gergiev conducts Donizetti s masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor with a magnificent cast led by Natalie Dessay. Donizetti s tragic opera depicts a.

Which Lucia is better: Joan Sutherland? Natalie Dessay? Diana Damrau? The debate never ends. Narm: Productions from the 20th century (ones with Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Anna Moffo, etc.) often had Lucia performing the Mad Scene in a nightgown that was somehow completely blood-free, despite the fact that she stabbed Arturo to death before the scene starts.

Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) 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. Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, a time when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a composer of opera.

I love opera and Lucia Di Lammermoor is not quite among my favourites but of the Bel Canto repertoire it is a masterpiece. The story is good and compelling, one of the better stories with Donizetti's music set to it, and the music is magnificent with the highlights being the Sextet and the Mad scene.

Dessay proved once and for all that the artist's imagination can trump any inherent limitations of the Fach. In the fall of 2007, Dessay opened the Met season (the second in the regime of general director Peter Gelb) with a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, staged by Mary Zimmerman. In interviews, Dessay was candid about what she had hoped.

Lucia di Lammermoor is a tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti, loosely based upon Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor, and with a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano. The opera is essentially Romeo and Juliet in Scotland. It follows Lucia Ashton and Edgardo di Ravenswood, two Star-Crossed Lovers.

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Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor: much more than a 'mad scene'. 20 November 2017. Lucia’s famous 'mad scene' is just one part of an opera full of spectacular singing, gripping gothic drama and beautiful orchestral music.