11:34 - Gänsehaut pur bei der "himmlischen" Verkündung....

Here 'cause of the Three Stoodges... !

01:26 How can you do more Italian ?

Three Stooges anyone?

Einfach unübertroffen❤

Me and my late husband's favourite!❤

The Flintstones brought me here

....The Three Stooges turn in an excellent rendition of this sextet in an episode called "Beer Barrel Polecats". It can be found on KZbin under "The Three Stooges - Micro-Phonies". (scroll down two or three videos) I highly recommend it.

Semplicemente meraviglioso

Netrebko's natural timbre is so beautiful.

The staging of this scene was amazing! The singing was nothing to write home about but the costumes and staging were so original and interesting. A great way to update an old-fashioned opera like this.

William Howard Taft, our nation’s heaviest President (325 pounds), was known for not being able to stay awake. He could fall asleep anywhere, during the opera, in an open car on the campaign trail, front row at a state funeral. At a dinner for his cabinet, he called for music on the Victrola, and fell asleep during the first song. He woke up and called for another song, but was out like a light before the record was even put on. His AG George Wickersham then suggested the sextet from Lucia do Lammermoor, since “it will awake anyone but a dead man.” When it failed to awaken the President, Wickersham concluded, “He must be dead.”

Sorry, but I mean, Nathalie Dessay was the better Lucia (in this performance).

Unglaublich schön, hervorragend dieses Sextett!

❤bellísimo

quella che non riesce mai a star ferma e si agita come una pazza è sempre lei, la Bartoli ...

😔😔😓😓😓❤❤

❤ excellent ❤

Wonderful!!! great staging too. \

Netrebko strepitosa oggi il più grande soprano al mondo

Geandes voix, grand déploiement ❤

terrible choir

1:00

love it, no matter how many times I listen

Бечала браво! Непотребко колхоз😂

“The restored third act was wonderful. The fourth……..was astounding.”

Very nice!!!

My Fav Donizetti opera Uplifting. OMG. Goosebumps Anna and Piotr are great. She almost as good as Joan

Ah! Tutti contenti saremo così. Questo giorno di tormenti, di capricci e di follia, in contenti e in allegria solo amor può terminar. Sposi, amici, al ballo, al gioco, alle mine date foco! Ed al suon di lieta marcia corriam tutti a festeggiar, ecc

I can't even!!! Love this!!

Don Carlos (8 July 1545 - 24 July 1568) was nothing like the Carlo of the opera. The descriptions of his behaviour suggest that he had serious mental problems. Rumour in the Spanish court had it that he enjoyed roasting animals alive and on one occasion blinded all the horses in the royal stables. At age eleven he ordered the whipping of a serving girl for no known reason. The Venetian ambassador, Hieronymo Soranzo, thought that Carlos was "ugly and repulsive" and once tried to force a shoemaker to eat shoes Carlos had found unsatisfactory. Another Venetian, Paolo Tiepolo, wrote: "He [Prince Carlos] wished neither to study nor to take physical exercise, but only to harm others. The young Infante Carlos was delicate and deformed. He grew up proud and willful and, as a young adult, began to show signs of mental instability. Many of his physical and psychological disabilities may have stemmed from the inbreeding common to his family, the House of Habsburg, and the royal houses of Portugal (House of Aviz) and Spain. He died at age 23, completely insane.

I’m here because of Long Haired Hare , Buggs Bunny cartoon

Sorry, but this ist nothing compared tot he 1982 performance at the MET of Sutheröand, Kraus, Elvira, Plishka.... t the 1982 performance will not be beatem by anyone...

1:45 El Phantastico

This whole opera is anticlerical bullshit. Maybe music is good, but the plot is nonsense and only imagination of the writer. May I remind that burning people on steaks was popular in protestant countries - germany and USA. Inquisition' most intense punishent for heretic was fasting. Also the Church abolished tortures on potential heretics.

This was the song the characters sang at the end of “Letter of Marque”, by Patrick O’Brian. The absolute misery of the main characters had been routed by happiness.

This is incredible singing, but I want to take a moment to recognize whoever blocked this scene. Little interactions between characters make this scene more meaningful - having the photographer place Lucia's hand on her husbands, only to have her pull away. How he directs Enrico (her brother) to draw close to his sister, but he reacts in agitation. How the chorus is left in the back, watching things unfold, and Arturo is left on the sidelines by himself to watch things unfold. Again, Excellent work!

It is always mesmerizing music to hear. This group of singers give a wonderful flawless performance of this.

What a brilliant staging of this exquisite sextet! The photographer moving people about is the perfect topping to a Victorian setting for this Lucia. Netrebko is in perfect form. Isn't it remarkable that the same composer of the hysterically funny "La Fille du Regiment" also created the ultimate operatic tragedy, "Lucia"? Talk about *range.*

Figaro: Bryn Terfel Rosina: Renée Fleming Susanna: Cecilia Bartoli Cherubino: Susanne Mentzer Almaviva: Dwayne Croft

Sounds good, but really silly stage business. This was an old fashioned production when first mounted. And Netrebko's dress! Unfortunate!☹️

Un gran Elenco, para un sexteto complicado de interpretar. Muchas gracias por compartir

Bravo!!

The tenor thinks it's his Solo..lol. also the baritone has a weak voice... no w carrying power

So great! I went to the same opera ten days ago! Thank you so much for shairing!

Muy bo ita

I prefer the s'entête with n.dessay,l.teziez et j.calleja..

the most beautiful Sextet , i've ever heard <3 thank you Mr. Donizetti :)

Simply Anna Netrebko sings this aria .Bravossimo

Opera never recovered from this moment . . . there's no turning back after this. You have, on the one hand, the bloated fantasies of Wagner, or the equally heavy-handed Verdi (who was great, in his own way, but never as purely melodic as this generation of composers, i.e., Rossini, Pacini, and Bellini, and of course, Big D himself).