Lucia di Lammermoor (Rancatore) DVD

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NOTE: This title is a DVD Video

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Audio: Dolby Digital, DTS surround
\r\n Video format: High Definition, NTSC Colour, Picture 16:9
\r\n Region Code: 0 (No regional coding - playable in all regions)
\r\n Subtitles: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
\r\n Notes and synopsis: English, French, Italian, German
\r\n Running time: 143 minutes

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Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

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Lucia di Lammermoor

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Lyric drama in two parts

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Orchestra and Chorus of Bergamo Music Festival Gaetano Donizetti
\r\n Antonio Fogliani, conductor

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Recorded live, Bergamo 2006

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Filmed in High Definition!

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Lucia - Désirée Rancatore
\r\n Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood - Roberto De Biasio
\r\n Lord Enrico Ashton - Luca Grassi
\r\n Raimondo Bidebent - Enrico Giuseppe Iori
\r\n Lord Arturo - Matteo Barca
\r\n Alisa - Tiziana Falco
\r\n Normanno - Vincenzo Maria Sarinelli

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In July 1835 Donizetti was to have staged the first of the \r\n three new operas for which he had signed a contract with the management of the \r\n San Carlo theatre; but things, as so often happens in the world of opera, did \r\n not work out as the composer had intended. The subject - Walter Scott’s \r\n The Bride of Lammermoor - had long since been chosen but the direction had not \r\n provided for having the libretto written so that it could be read and approved \r\n by the censor by the beginning of March, four months before the scheduled date \r\n of the première, as the contract stipulated. At the end of May, at the \r\n composer’s urgent bidding, the writing of the libretto was entrusted to \r\n Salvatore Cammarano, destined to become one of the composer’s favourite \r\n working partners: yet the date of the première, inevitably, had to be \r\n postponed. After many problems, Lucia di Lammermoor was at last staged on the \r\n evening of 26th September 1835. Its success went beyond even the most optimistic \r\n of expectations. The press too, in recording the authentic triumph of the opera, \r\n was generous in its praise. Reports of the time highlight one fact: what triumphed \r\n on the evening of 26th September 1835 was above all Donizetti’s music, \r\n not the singers, excellent and ”in the parts” as they were. In that \r\n memorable evening everybody realised that Donizetti had created an opera of \r\n such musical quality and novelty of invention as he had never before attained, \r\n capable of communicating its values with truly unique immediacy and emotive \r\n strength. Désirée Rancatore, here debuting in the title role, \r\n proves to be more than equal to the task.

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