Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (London 1959)

Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Tullio Serafin (Conductor), Joan Sutherland (Performer), Joao Gibin (Performer), John Shaw (Performer), Joseph Rouleau (Performer), Kenneth MacDonald (Performer), Margreta Elkins (Performer), Robert Bowman (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Joan Sutherland, Joao Gibin, John Shaw, Joseph Rouleau, Kenneth MacDonald, et al.
• Conductor: Tullio Serafin
• Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
• Audio CD (October 27, 1998)
• SPARS Code: DDD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Melodram
• ASIN: B00000DFWM
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #695,350 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #81 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Divas > Sutherland, Joan

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

2. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

3. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

4. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

5. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

6. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

7. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

8. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

9. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

10. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

See all 14 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

2. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

3. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

4. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

5. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

6. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

7. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

8. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

9. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

10. Lucia di Lammermoor, opera

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best Lucia I've ever heard, August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (London 1959) (Audio CD)

This Lucia was recorded in 1959. Sutherland was so much the perfection of human voice then that no words can describe it, you must listen to believe. Lucia's fiendishly difficult music was completely conquered by the legendary Sutherland technique. I've never heard such displays of trills, runs, staccatos and brilliant high notes. No wonder Sutherland had the entire operatic world at her feet. I dare say that this LIVE recording is even better than both of Sutherland's studio sets. The definitive Lucia of our time. This is truely great, great singing.

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW! WOW! WOW!, June 17, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (London 1959) (Audio CD)

This live recording was done in 1959 right after Dame Joan's legendary Convent Garden Lucia. Words cannot describe her beauty of tone and phenomenal technique. In this set, Sutherland is EVEN more amazing then the two studio recordings of this opera. NOTHING, there is NOTHING that you can take from La Stupenda's Lucia. There is not one note out of place! A zillion stars!

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brava, La Stupenda, September 7, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (London 1959) (Audio CD)

I prefer the great Dame LIVE, than her many studio recordings. This Convent Garden LIVE Performance is unparallel in ALL criterias. This is one of the greatest moment of our Operatic History. I truely believe that this performance will make you believe that Sutherland is the greatest operatic phenomenon of our time!!