Dr Takt: Gaetano Donizetti LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Videocast, Episode 29)
Channel: DeutscheOperBerlin
Date: 2023-05-11

Today the Doctor takes us to the edge of madness - more precisely, to the mad scene in Gaetano Donizetti's LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR. What is interesting here is that a basically simple musical substance is virtually dissolved by virtuosically sung ornaments and coloratura - the same as the mind of the title character, which is in decomposition.

How differently singers phrase is shown by his sound example from the passage "Spargi d'amaro pianto" with Joan Sutherland, Maria Callas, Montserrat Caballé, Diana Damrau, Edita Gruberová, Pretty Yende and Renata Scotto. Crazy! 

We present LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR in a production by Filippo Sanjust on 17/25/28 May + 7/10 June 2023.

Info: https://t1p.de/pvi9r

Video by Chris and the FATSOX

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