Donizetti * Lucia di Lammermoor _ "T'allontana, o sciagurato!" / Callas, Di Stefano / Karajan, cond.

LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Donizetti
Berlin, 29/09/1955
Herbert von Karajan said he decided to conduct Lucia di Lammermoor not because of the mad scene, or the fountain scene, or the heartbreaking finale with the tenor. Or even the famous sextet. He decided to conduct Lucia because of this music, the stretta that ends Act 2. Visceral, intense and dramatically charged like few other ensembles in Italian opera. Verdi, of course, took notes.
Lucia di Lammermoor had been associated with light-voiced sopranos so when Callas took on the title role in the early 1950s, she proved it revelatory with a combination of visceral power, technical refinement and interpretative insight. In 1955, she and the La Scala company visited Berlin to perform Lucia, the result was pandemonium, what Germans called a 'Sternstunde' - a shining hour. The sextet had to be encored and the ovations lasted forever. It brought her together with another musical titan, Herbert von Karajan, and the results were phenomenal, the more so for a cast that also included tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, baritone Rolando Panerai and bass Nicola Zaccaria.

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Legendary.

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Imposible mejor cast comenzando por supuesto con la Divina. Muchas gracias y saludos desde Santiago de Chile. Dr.Fernando Rivas-Burattini 🤝👏👏🙏✝️🙏✝️🎼🎼🇨🇱🇨🇱.

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Di Stefano da brividi ❤️

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Berlin 55?

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