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Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Pablo Elvira, Paul Plishka, Richard Bonynge, Metropolitan Opera
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....of this absolutely fabulous performance. To say I was overjoyed to encounter this DVD would be an understatement...I saw this performance on a "Live from the Met" telecast back in 1982, and it has stuck with me.Opera is in some ways the most unrealistic of art forms...here we have a bunch of Scots singing Italian. Two not terribly attractive middle-age people pledge their young love to each other in some of the most beautiful music ever written. Both lead characters keep singing after they're dead [that happens often in Opera]. Who cares? We come to the Opera to be blown away, and we are. If you want pretty girls, try pop. If you want stories that make sense, go elsewhere.This performance absolutely COOKED!!! Dame Joan was 56, and Lucia was her signatue. If she had been a little better 20 years earlier, it wasn't by much. The late Alfredo Kraus was the lyric tenor of the ages; Edgar was perfect for him. He cared for his voice superbly, and picked his roles with care. The late Pablo Elvira is a wonderful Enrico, the villain brother who wants to marry off Lucia for money. Paul Plishka and Ariel Bybee were in perfect voice, and Richard Bonynge conducted with a sure hand. The audience went berserk, and well they should have.I heard several of these fine singers in person over the years [and will always treasure the program Alfredo Kraus signed for me at Carnegie Hall in 1984; he was a gentleman]. They never sounded better than they did the night this was taped. If Opera is your cup of tea, don't miss this!!!
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