{"product_id":"callas-donizetti-lucia-di-lammermoor-1959-stereo-paco207","title":"CALLAS Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor (1959, stereo) - PACO207","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eDONIZETTI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eLucia di Lammermoor\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStereo studio recording, 1959\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 1hr 50:50\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLucia - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMaria Callas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eEdgardo -\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003e Ferruccio Tagliavini\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eEnrico - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePiero Cappuccilli\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRaimondo - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eBernard Ladysz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eArturo - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLeonard del Ferro\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAlisa - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMargreta Elkins\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNormanno - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eRenzo Casellato\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003ePhilharmonia Orchestra and Chorus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTullio Serafin \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACO207.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nDonizetti heard Bellini’s \u003cem\u003eI Puritani\u003c\/em\u003e eclip­sing his own new opera,\n\u003cem\u003eMarino Faliero,\u003c\/em\u003e at the Théâtre-Italien—and went away and wrote\n\u003cem\u003eLucia.\u003c\/em\u003e That crude way of putting it reveals an essential truth.\n\u003cem\u003eI Puritani,\u003c\/em\u003ethough not based on Scott (whatever the reference books\nmay say), borrowed the title under which \u003cem\u003eOld Mortality\u003c\/em\u003e was\ntrans­lated, and its plot belonged to the world of the Romantic novel. In\nthis field Donizetti was superior. In both operas there is an opening\nscene with a chorus of retainers and a lyrical aria for a dramatic baritone;\na heroine who goes mad for love, and imagines her wedding day in an\nelaborate Mad Scene; a bass who announces her arrival; a romantic tenor who\nmust be both tender and heroic; an \u003cem\u003euragano\u003c\/em\u003e, or violent storm.\nDonizetti even took one of Bellini's melodies (the bass line of the\nfirst-act duet) and improved on it (as the chorus' B major tune in the last\nscene of \u003cem\u003eLucia).\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nI do not want to praise \u003cem\u003eLucia\u003c\/em\u003e at the expense of \u003cem\u003eI Puritani\u003c\/em\u003e\n(a very beautiful opera), but lately a certain amount of the opposite has\nbeen going on. Twenty-five years ago the old Italian operas generally were\nheld in low esteem; more recently, the conventional thing to say is that\nBellini is all right — because of his melodic gift. But to anyone who has a\nfeeling for \u003cem\u003eopera\u003c\/em\u003e, as opposed to just \u003cem\u003emusic\u003c\/em\u003e, it is plain\nthat \u003cem\u003eLucia\u003c\/em\u003e exists in a different world from \u003cem\u003eI Puritani\u003c\/em\u003e\n(despite the inspired pages of the latter). And one reason is that its\ncharacters are real people finding utterance in song — characters in\nsituations imagined by a great artist, not concoctions by a minor\nlibrettist.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe heroine remains close to Scott’s Miss Lucy; and she, you remember,\n“though the expression of the countenance was in the last degree gentle,\nsoft, timid, and feminine\", yet “nourished the germ of those passions which\nsometimes spring up in one night, like the gourd of the prophet, and\nastonish the observer by their unexpected ardour and intensity”. No more\nthan Amina is she just a sweet, simple coloratura. It is the great dramatic\ntruth of Maria Callas’s Lucia, in this new recording, which sets it above\nthe impersonation of the earlier Columbia set. (Roberta Peters seems to me\nto be hardly a starter in the “great Lucia\" stakes, but merely efficient,\nso I shall not consider the R.C.A. set in any detail in this review.) The\nWhitsun weekend has been spent playing again and again, in endless\ncom­parisons and to different groups of people, the new and old Callas\nrecordings, the R.C.A., and Joan Sutherland’s version of the two arias. The\nconclusion is that in every way Mme Callas has refined her interpretation\nof the role, and made it more exquisite, more fascinating, musically and\ndramatically more subtle — in a word, more beautiful. But do not think that\nthis means the line has been overloaded with emotional colourings or\nself-consciously artistic “effects\". Sometimes she has achieved her result\nby simplification. For example, in “Verrano a te\" she no longer presses,\nbut spins a tender thread of legato: this duet is melting, with Tagliavini\nat his most dulcet; the final verse in octaves is ravishing. (The brief\ncadenza in which the soprano from the high C, the tenor from the high E\nflat (!), run down in sixths, is as usual omitted: is it ever sung?). And\n“Alfin sei mio\" is no longer broken by a gulp. Indeed Mme Callas could be\nsaid to have made her Lucia greater by reducing the overt dramatics, by\nbringing new tenderness, fragrance and innocence to her interpretation, and\nthereby actually increasing its expressive power.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nThe sound of the voice is very different from seven years ago. There is\nless weight behind it; it is more supple, more delicate. The timbre is not\nso dark, more tender and less resonated. I grant at once that there is more\nconfidence, more forthrightness, in the earlier performance; and that in\nthe cabaletta, “Quando rapita in estasi\", the high D and, especially, the\nhigh C, of the final decorations are awkward, and may touch a nerve of pain\nin the listener. But on the whole the singing represents Callas at\ntechnically her best. There is just one sour note, the high C mentioned\nabove; and very little of the unsteadiness, and moments of curdled tone,\nthat spoil, for example, parts of the \u003cem\u003eLa Sonnambula\u003c\/em\u003e record­ing. For\nsome reason, each time the trill on the D sharp in “Regnava\" (but not the\nother trills) is insecure. But that the singing as a whole is more\nbeautiful than in the earlier set there can be no doubt.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e - \u003cb\u003eA. 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Preludio  (2:33)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eACT ONE, SCENE ONE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Percorrete . . . Percorriamo le spiagge vicine  (2:26)\u003cbr\u003e3. Tu sei turbato! . . . E n'ho ben d'onde  (3:00)\u003cbr\u003e4. Cruda, funesta smania  (2:10)\u003cbr\u003e5. Il tuo dubbio è amai certezza . . . Come vinti da stanchezza  (2:19)\u003cbr\u003e6. La pietade in suo favore  (1:42)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT ONE, SCENE TWO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. Ancor non giunse?  (4:01)\u003cbr\u003e8. Regnava nel silenzio alta la notte e bruna  (4:05)\u003cbr\u003e9. Quando rapito in estasi  (3:58)\u003cbr\u003e10. Egli s'avanza ... Lucia perdona se ad ora inusitata  (2:29)\u003cbr\u003e11. Sulla tomba che rinserra il tradito genitore  (3:00)\u003cbr\u003e12. Qui di sposa eternal fede . . . Ah, soltanto il nostro foco  (2:35)\u003cbr\u003e13. Verranno a te sull'aure i miei sospiri ardenti  (4:38)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eACT TWO, SCENE ONE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e14. Lucia fra poco a te verrè  . . . Tremante l'aspetto  (3:11)\u003cbr\u003e15. Appressati, Lucia . . . Il pallor funesto, orrendo  (5:19)\u003cbr\u003e16. Soffriva nel pianto . . . Un folle t'accese  (3:39)\u003cbr\u003e17. Che fia? . . . Suonar di giubilo  (1:34)\u003cbr\u003e18. Se tradirmi tu potrai . . . Tu che vedi il pianto mio  (2:03)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003edisc two \u003c\/b\u003e(56:08)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT TWO, SCENE TWO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Per te d'immenso giubilo . . . Per poco fra le tenebre  (3:24)\u003cbr\u003e2. Dov'é Lucia? . . . Qui giungere or la vedrem  (4:02)\u003cbr\u003e3. Chi me frena in tal momento  (3:35)\u003cbr\u003e4. T'allontana, sciagurato . . . Rispettate in me di Dio  (1:13)\u003cbr\u003e5. Sconsigliato! In queste porte chi ti guida?  (2:01)\u003cbr\u003e6. Esci, fuggi, il furor che mi accende  (1:22)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eACT THREE, SCENE ONE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e7. D'immenso giubilo s'innalzi un grido  (2:23)\u003cbr\u003e8. Dalle stanze ove Lucia tratta avea col suo consorte  (2:25)\u003cbr\u003e9. Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento!  (3:14)\u003cbr\u003e10. Il dolce suono mi colpi di sua voce!  (6:45)\u003cbr\u003e11. Ardon gli incensi  (5:04)\u003cbr\u003e12. Spargi d'amaro pianto  (4:08)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT THREE, SCENE TWO\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e13. Tombe degli avi miei  (4:00)\u003cbr\u003e14. Fra poco a me ricovero darà  negletto avello  (3:05)\u003cbr\u003e15. Oh, meschina! Oh, fato orrendo!  (4:24)\u003cbr\u003e16. 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