Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (1953 - Serafin) - Callas Remastered Maria Callas

• 1Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor: Prelude02:11
• 2Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Precorrete...Percorriamo le spiagge vicine (Normanno, Chorus)02:26
• 3Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Tu sei turbato!...E n'ho ben d'onde (Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo)03:11
• 4Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Cruda, funesta smania (Enrico, Normanno, Raimondo)02:20
• 5Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Il tuo dubbio e omai certezza ... Come vinti da stanchezza (Chorus, Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo)02:09
• 6Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: La pietade in suo favore (Enrico, Raimondo, Chorus)01:38
• 7Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Ancor non giunse! (Lucia, Alisa)04:12
• 8Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Regnava nel silenzio alta la notte e bruna (Lucia, Alisa)04:00
• 9Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Quando rapito in estasi (Lucia, Alisa)03:59
• 10Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Egli s'avanza...Lucia, perdona se ad ora inusitata (Alisa, Edgardo, Lucia)02:38
• 11Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Sulla tomba che rinserra il tradito genitore (Edgardo, Lucia)02:57
• 12Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Qui di sposa eterna fede...Ah, soltanto il nostro foco (Edgardo, Lucia)01:34
• 13Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Ah talor del tuo pensiero (Edgardo, Lucia)00:46
• 14Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 1: Verrano a te sull'aura i miei sospiri ardenti (Lucia, Edgardo)04:23
• 15Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Lucia fra poco a te verra (Normanno, Enrico)03:13
• 16Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Appressati, Lucia ... Il pallor funesto, orrendo (Enrico, Lucia)05:06
• 17Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Soffriva nel pianto ... Un folle t' accese (Lucia, Enrico)03:22
• 18Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Che fia?... Suonar di giubilo (Lucia, Enrico)01:24
• 19Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Se tradirmi tu potrai ... Tu che vedi il pianto mio (Enrico, Lucia)01:59
• 20Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Per te d'immenso giubilo ... Per poco fra la tenebre (Chorus, Arturo)03:39
• 21Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Dov'e Lucia? ... Qui giungere or la vedrem (Arturo, Enrico, Chorus)01:50
• 22Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Piange la madre estinta (Enrico, Lucia, Arturo, Raimondo)02:19
• 23Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Chi mi frena in tal momento (Edgardo, Enrico, Lucia, Raimondo, Arturo, Alisa, Chorus)03:33
• 24Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: T'allontana, sciagurato ... Rispettate in me di Dio (Arturo, Enrico, Chorus, Raimondo)01:07
• 25Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Sconsigliato! In questa portachi ti guida? (Enrico, Edgardo, Raimondo, Lucia, Chorus)02:07
• 26Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 2: Esci, fuggi, il furor che mi accende (Arturo, Enrico, Chorus, Raimondo, Lucia, Edgardo, Alisa)01:23
• 27Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: D'immenso giubilo (Chorus, Raimondo)02:27
• 28Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Dalle stanze ove Lucia (Raimondo)02:42
• 29Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento! (Chorus, Raimondo)03:15
• 30Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Il dolce suono ... Ardon gli incensi (Lucia, Raimondo, Normanno, Chorus)11:49
• 31Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Spargi d'amaro pianto (Lucia, Raimondo, Chorus, Enrico)03:48
• 32Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Tombe degli avi miei (Edgardo)04:07
• 33Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Fra poco a me ricovero dar? negletto avello (Edgardo)03:29
• 34Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Oh, meschinal Oh, fato orrendo! (Chorus, Edgardo)04:07
• 35Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (Edgardo, Raimondo, Chorus)05:14
• Total Runtime01:50:24

Info for Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (1953 - Serafin) - Callas Remastered

Maria Callas
was born to a Greek family in New York in 1923. Her vocal training took place in Athens, where her teacher was the coloratura soprano Elvira de Hidalgo, who had sung with Enrico Caruso and Feodor Chaliapin. After early performances in Greece, Callas’s international career was launched in 1947 when she performed the title role in Ponchielli’s La Gioconda at the Arena di Verona in Italy.

Her voice defied simple classification and her artistic range was extraordinary. In her early twenties she sang such heavy dramatic roles as Gioconda, Turandot, Brünnhilde and Isolde, but over the course of her career her most famous roles came to be: Bellini’s Norma and Amina (La sonnambula); Verdi’s Violetta (La traviata); Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor and Anna Bolena, Cherubini’s Medea and Puccini’s Tosca. Though her timbre was not always conventionally beautiful, Callas’s musicianship and phrasing were in a class of their own. She brought characters to vivid life with her skill in colouring her tone and making insightful use of the text.

She is credited with changing the history of opera: by placing a perhaps unprecedented emphasis on musical integrity and dramatic truth, and by transforming perceptions – and reviving the fortunes – of the bel canto repertoire, particularly Bellini and Donizetti.

The 1950s marked the height of Callas’s career. Its base lay in the opera houses of Italy, and she became the prima donna assoluta of Milan’s legendary La Scala – notably in the productions of Luchino Visconti – but her operatic appearances also encompassed London’s Royal Opera House, the New York Metropolitan Opera, Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, and the opera houses of Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Lisbon, and, in the early 1950s, Mexico City, São Paolo and Rio de Janeiro.

From 1959, when she started a life-changing love affair with the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, her performing career slowed down and her voice became more fragile. Her final stage performances came in 1965, when she was only 42.

There were many plans for a return to the stage – and for further complete recordings – but they never reached fruition, though in 1974 she gave a series of concerts in Europe, North America and Japan with the tenor Giuseppe di Stefano; he had partnered her frequently in the opera house and in the studio, not least in the 1953 La Scala Tosca under Victor de Sabata, considered a landmark in recording history. Callas died alone in her Paris apartment in September 1977.

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