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The only Lucia!!!!!!!

profgv | 03/10/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I got this Lucia yesterday! Finally!!!!!! After this magnificent Lucia I cannot listen to any other Lucia anymore, not even Sutherland! I'm a new Callas-Fan! So glad I bought this! Finally I understood why all opera-experts adore this woman!"

Vocally the greatest Lucia

Emma de Soleil | On a holiday In Ibiza, then back to the UK for stu | 01/30/2004

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In this performance from 1952 Callas sang her first Lucia. Reminding one of the days where Melba sang Lucia she guides this opera back into the tradition of a dramatic soprano d'agilita. (Before chirpers had had belittled and nearly tweeted this dramatic heroine to death) She made it possible for Sutherland, another dramatic soprano d'agilita, to sing Lucia because SHE reclaimed the part for the right voice-category. To describe her singing shortly: FLAWLESS, BEAUTIFUL AND NEVER EQUALLED. No wobbles, rock-solid high notes, mind-boggling coloratura, GORGEOUS timbre (How BEAUTIFUL young Maria sounded) and that touch of melancholy you'll hear from NO other Lucia. She SOUNDS mad in the madscene where others merely show off with their technique. (Sills being the exception) She is the only soprano who manges to combine BEAUTY with MADNESS. (Something not even she was able to repeat to 100% in the performances that followed) Di Stefano sounds incredible as Edgardo (IMHO Much better and more dramatic than for example Pavarotti)!! The sound is ok, the conducting not as great as Serafin's or von Karajan's but better than most others. A MILESTONE OF A LUCIA. A MUST FOR EVERY OPERALOVER!"