Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor Diana Damrau

• Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848): Atto Primo - Scena 1
• 1 Preludio - Percorrete le spiagge vicine (Normanno, Chorus) 04:24
• 2 Tu sei turbato! (Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo) 02:42
• 3 Cruda, funesta smania (Enrico, Normanno, Raimondo) 01:53
• 4 Il tuo dubbio è omai certezza (Chorus, Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo) 02:01
• 5 La pietade in suo favore (Enrico, Raimondo, Chorus) 02:24
• Atto Primo - Scena 2
• 6 Ancor non giunse! (Lucia, Alisa) 04:27
• 7 Regnava nel silenzio (Lucia, Alisa) 04:52
• 8 Quando rapito in estasi (Lucia, Alisa) 04:50
• 9 Egli s'avanza (Alisa, Edgardo, Lucia) 02:38
• 10 Sulla tomba che rinserra (Edgardo, Lucia) 03:10
• 11 Qui di sposa eterna fede... Verranno a te sull'aure (Edgardo, Lucia) 07:16
• Atto Secondo - Scena 1
• 12 Lucia fra poco a te verrà (Normanno, Enrico) 02:47
• 13 Appressati, Lucia... Il pallor funesto, orrendo (Enrico, Lucia) 05:44
• 14 Soffriva nel pianto (Lucia, Enrico) 03:47
• 15 Che fia! (Lucia, Enrico) 01:22
• 16 Se tradirmi tu potrai (Enrico, Lucia) 02:44
• 17 Ebben? Di tua speranza (Lucia, Raimondo) 02:10
• 18 Ah! cedi, cedi (Raimondo, Lucia) 02:26
• 19 Al ben de' tuoi qual vittima (Raimondo, Lucia) 03:42
• Atto Secondo - Scena 2
• 20 Per te d'immenso giubilo (Chorus, Arturo) 03:30
• 21 Dov'è Lucia? (Arturo, Enrico, Chorus, Lucia, Raimondo, Edgardo) 03:57
• 22 Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Edgardo, Enrico, Lucia, Raimondo, Alisa, Arturo, Chorus) 03:33
• 23 T'allontana, sciagurato (Enrico, Arturo, Coro, Edgardo, Raimondo, Lucia) 05:41
• Atto Terzo - Scena 1
• 24 Orrida è questa notte (Edgardo, Enrico) 02:41
• 25 Qui del padre ancor respira (Edgardo, Enrico) 07:25
• Atto Terzo - Scena 2
• 26 D'immenso giubilo (Chorus) 01:40
• 27 Ah! Cessate quel contento... Dalle stanze ove Lucia (Raimondo, Chorus) 02:54
• 28 Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento! (Chorus, Raimondo) 02:21
• 29 Eccola! Oh, giusto cielo!... Il dolce suono (Raimondo, Chorus, Lucia) 04:00
• 30 Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma... Ardon gli incensi (Lucia, Normanno, Raimondo, Chorus) 10:05
• 31 S'avanza Enrico! (Raimondo, Enrico, Lucia, Chorus) 03:00
• 32 Spargi d'amaro pianto (Lucia, Chorus, Enrico) 04:50
• Atto Terzo - Scena 3
• 33 Tombe degli avi miei (Edgardo) 04:01
• 34 Fra poco a me ricovero (Edgardo) 03:03
• 35 Oh, meschina! Oh, fato orrendo! (Chorus, Edgardo, Raimondo) 03:49
• 36 Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (Edgardo, Raimondo, Chorus) 04:58
• Total Runtime 02:16:47

Info zu Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

Diana Damrau, “the leading coloratura soprano in the world” in the words of the New York Sun, first sang Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Five years later, for this recording from Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig, she is joined by two splendid singers from the Mediterranean: tenor Joseph Calleja as her lover Edgardo, and baritone Ludovic Tézier as her brother Enrico. Recorded live in concert in July 2013, this double album set captures Diana Damrau’s first performances of Lucia di Lammermoor in Munich, the capital of her native state of Bavaria.

Diana Damrau first sang Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. Five years later, in July 2013, she brought her riveting interpretation of the tragic bel canto heroine to her native Bavaria, where she was greeted with rapture. In this much-anticipated live recording from Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig, she is joined by two splendid singers from the Mediterranean: tenor Joseph Calleja as Lucia's lover Edgardo, and baritone Ludovic Tézier as her controlling brother Enrico.

“Singing Lucia was a landmark for me,” she explained to APPLAUS magazine before the concert. “I waited for a long time and it was one of my biggest role debuts.”

Hailed 'the Meryl Streep of opera', Damrau is admired for the detail and realism of her stagecraft. At Munich’s Philharmonie Gasteig she had no costumes, stage decor or director, but, as she told APPLAUS: “I like concert performances, because I am performing so close to the orchestra. I put all my passion for acting into the voice. I can give free rein to my interpretation of the role, creating my own stage production in my mind.”

Her interpretation of the Mad Scene in Munich was greeted with an ecstatic standing ovation, following a virtuoso cadenza accompanied by a real verrophone rather than a flute to produce the ethereal glass harmonica effect Donizetti originally intended. Played here by its inventor, Sascha Reckert, the glass tubes emit eerily shimmering tones to match Damrau’s vocal colours.

Lucia’s ill-fated lover Edgardo is sung by the Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja whose previous outing in the role was for the Met in 2011 opposite Natalie Dessay, where he was praised by The New York Times as 'sensationally ardent'. As Calleja told APPLAUS: “Edgardo is one of the most difficult tenor roles ever written ... At the end, in ‘O bell’alma innamorata’ ... he winds the voice up higher and higher; it’s incredibly beautiful music – damn difficult, but really beautiful to sing.”

With the Münchener Opernchor and Orchester conducted by Jesús López-Cobos, one of the world's leading coloratura stars unveils her unforgettable Lucia.

Diana Damrau, soprano (Lucia)
Ludovic Tézier, baritone (Lord Enrico Ashton)
Joseph Calleja, tenor (Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood)
Nicolas Testé, bass (Raimondo Bidebent)
Marie McLaughlin, soprano (Alisa)
David Lee, baritone (Lord Arturo Bucklaw)
Andrew Lepri Meyer, bass (Normanno)
Münchener Opernchor
Prof. Andreas Herrmann, Chorus master
Münchener Opernorchester
Jesús López-Cobos, conductor
Sascha Reckert, Glass harmonica

Recorded live at the Philharmonie im Gasteig, Munich, 1, 4, 10 July 2013 and on 7 July 2013

Diana Damrau
Acclaimed as the “leading coloratura soprano in the world” (New York Sun), Diana Damrau continues to amaze audiences with her unique voice and arresting stage presence. A regular guest at the most renowned opera companies and concert halls, she was awarded the title Bayerische Kammersängerin in 2007 and named “Best Female Singer” at the 2014International Opera Awards.

The 2014/15 season sees Diana Damrau performing a broad range of repertoire both on the operatic and concert stages of the world. She begins the season at Theater an der Wien where she stars in a new production of Bizet’s Les pecheurs des perles, followed by her return to the Bayerische Staatsoper for a new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, a role she reprises for Milan’s Teatro alla Scala later in the season (and recorded in Munich for Erato). She sings Massenet’s Manon at the Metropolitan Opera and, Adina in Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore for Zurich Opera before returning to Baden-Baden’s Festspielhaus to debut Contessa Almaviva in concert performances of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Diana Damrau can be heard in concert and recital extensively this season. She sings Belcanto-themed gala concerts amongst other in Prague, Amsterdam, Baden-Baden, Geneva, Munich, Frankfurt and Vienna and appears in recital in Vienna, Milan, Madrid, Paris and Graz. Diana Damrau further joins the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra for their New Year’s concerts and appears in concert with the Vienna Philharmonic during the Salzburg Mozart Week as well as at New York’s Carnegie Hall for a performance of Brahms’ Requiem.

Over the last seasons, Diana Damrau has extended her repertoire to include some new signature roles such as Philine (Mignon) and Elvira (I puritani) with Grand Théâtre de Genève, Linda di Chamounix with Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona, and Lucia di Lammermoor and Amina in La sonnambula for the Metropolitan Opera In 2011, the soprano scored a tremendous success with her rendition of the three soprano roles in Les contes d’Hoffmann at the Bavarian State Opera. In 2013, she sang Gilda in a new production of Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera New York, where she also made her acclaimed role debut as Verdi’s La traviata, a role that she also performed in a season-opening new production at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, a new production for Opéra de Paris, as well as performances with the Bayerische Staatsoper, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden and Zurich Opera.

As a member of the ensembles at Mannheim National Theatre and Frankfurt Opera, Diana Damrau began her international career with much-praised guest appearances as Queen of the Night, Zerbinetta and Adele (Die Fledermaus) in Munich, Berlin and Vienna. Free-lancing since 2002, she took on the female lead in the world premiere of Cerha’s Der Riese vom Steinfeld at Vienna State Opera and was hailed by the critics for her UK debut as Queen of the Night (2003), as well as her spectacular rendition of the title role in Salieri’s L’Europa riconosciuta at the re-opening of Milan’s La Scala (2004). Other noteworthy engagements include Gym Instructress/Drunken Woman in the world premiere of Lorin Maazel’s 1984 at Covent Garden, Susanna at La Scala, Konstanze at Vienna’s Burgtheater, Zerbinetta at Teatro Real Madrid, Gilda at Semperoper Dresden, Gretel at Covent Garden, Sophie (Der Rosenkavalier) at Baden-Baden Festival Hall, and her role debuts as Marie (La fille du régiment, San Francisco), Donna Anna (Geneva), Massenet’s Manon (Vienna), Aminta (Munich), and the world premiere of A Harlot’s Progress at Theater an der Wien.

An audience favourite at New York’s Metropolitan Opera, Diana has returned to New York every year since 2005, tackling Zerbinetta, Rosina, Aithra, Konstanze, Gilda, Lucia, Marie, Adèle (Le comte Ory) and Adina, and causing a sensation by singing both her first Pamina and her last Queen of the Night in a 2007 run of Die Zauberflöte. In Europe, she has close ties with the Salzburg Festival, where her 2001 debut was followed by appearances as Queen of the Night, Blonde, Konstanze, Fauno, Susanna, and a solo recital in 2014. Diana Damrau works regularly with an illustrious list of conductors includes Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Sir Colin Davis, Ivor Bolton, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Kent Nagano, Fabio Luisi, Jérémie Rhorer, Dan Ettinger and Christian Thielemann.

In addition to her achievements in opera, Diana has established herself as one of today’s finest lieder singers and gives recitals with pianists like Helmut Deutsch, Julius Drake and Matthias Lademann at renowned venues including Berlin’s Philharmonie, Vienna’s Musikverein, London’s Wigmore Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall, the Salzburg Festival and the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg. Her extraordinary musical partnership with harpist Xavier de Maistre is documented in the form of a CD release (Nuit d’étoiles) and a DVD released in 2013.

Recording exclusively for EMI/Virgin Classics, now Erato, Diana Damrau made her recording debut with Arie di Bravura which received enthusiastic reviews and prestigious awards. Subsequent solo projects include recordings of Mozart arias (Donna), coloratura pieces of the romantic period (COLORaturaS), orchestral songs by Richard Strauss (Poesie, awarded with the ECHO Klassik in 2011) and songs by Franz Liszt. Diana Damrau’s discography is rounded off by various opera, concert and recital recordings on different labels. TV broadcasts, most notably from the opening gala of the 2006 Soccer World Cup in Munich, have made her well-known to the general public. In autumn 2013, her album Forever with melodies from operetta, film and musical was released and awarded with an ECHO Klassik in 2014. 2015 sees the release of a Belcanto-themed recording.A documentary on her life, directed by Beatrix Conrad and entitled Diana Damrau – Divine Diva, was first aired on the French-German TV channel arte in February 2011.

A native of Günzburg an der Donau/Germany, Diana Damrau studied voice with Carmen Hanganu at Wurzburg Conservatory and with Hanna Ludwig in Salzburg. She made her professional operatic debut at Würzburg’s Mainfrankentheater in 1995.

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