Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Richard Bonynge, The Metropolitan Opera
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• Classical
• Color
• DVD-Video
• NTSC
In Theaters : 28 September, 1983
DVD Release : 26 September, 2000 |
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Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Richard Bonynge, The Metropolitan Opera Customer Reviews
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I'm watching (listening) once again after some years as I write this little note. Out of curiosity I read what the other thirty-five of you had to say. All the opinions count because they are expressed by people who are either educated to opera or have great affection for it. Having said that, I was embarrassed for the principles - and was that taken with Pablo Elvira who has done little in the way of recordings, more's the pity. Plishka was, well, Plishka. In case some of you haven't noticed, the Met has rather shabby performances with singers who don't fit and some who shouldn't be singing in what used to be a world class house. Clearly, that was going on in 1982 and little has improved. (Ask me about Meistersinger on 3/19/07.)
Oh-yes! I'm not brand new, and long for those days of yesteryear when an opera singer considered the lyric stage either a convent or a monestery, so to speak. Dame Joan most certainly lead a circumspect life with her Dickie and God bless them both. Somehow, even the greats too often just don't know when to quit. I've never understood that sort of mania but, then, I never had to.
I believe that those of you who adored this performance and its stars did so out of appreciation and reverence, just as I often do with Callas who had some outstanding flaws - that wobble alone probably drives some listeners to turn her off. |
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Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor / Richard Bonynge, The Metropolitan Opera dvd movie.