Donizetti / Gruberova: Lucia Di Lammermoor - COMPACT DISCS

Donizetti / Gruberova: Lucia Di Lammermoor - COMPACT DISCSTitle: Lucia Di Lammermoor Artist: Donizetti Gruberova Label: Orfeo Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 4011790931227 Genre: Classical Release Date: 2018 07 06 Number of Discs: 2 Additional Details: 2 PACK The global careers of not one but two Slovakian singers were launched on March 23, 1978 in Vienna's State Opera: that of then 27 year old tenor Peter Dvorsk, and that of 31 year old Edita Gruberova, hers a career which has endured to this day. Despite

Title: Lucia Di Lammermoor
Artist: Donizetti / Gruberova
Label: Orfeo
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 4011790931227
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2018-07-06
Number of Discs: 2
Additional Details: 2 PACK

The global careers of not one but two Slovakian singers were launched on March 23, 1978 in Vienna's State Opera: that of then-27-year-old tenor Peter Dvorský, and that of 31-year-old Edita Gruberova, hers a career which has endured to this day. Despite her success there in the role of Zerbinetta just eighteen months earlier, she was then still an insider tip for such a large bel canto role. Although studio recordings from subsequent years exist of this role which would later become Gruberova's hallmark, this early live recording has a quality that is missing from later recordings: the maidenly determination and yet stupendous vocal perfection that Gruberova delivers in her portrayal, her inimitable sonorous timbre - which she retains to this day - alongside the wonderfully intimate and yet tense partnership with Dvorský, whose passionate, burning tenor provides a unique highlight in his first duet with Gruberova's Lucia and supplies a further high point in the tricky final scene on a recording not short of such brilliant climaxes. Matteo Manuguerra's reading of Lucia's brother Enrico is a perilously relentless, masculine tour de force. Last but not least, the quickening touch of Giuseppe Patane's baton makes this a gem among the treasures of Edita Gruberova's discography, one never short of outstanding testimony to her consummate vocal skill and is a wonderful addition to that of Peter Dvorský, whose discography is sadly not so bountiful. The Neapolitan conductor, who was highly regarded in Munich for his performances of Italian repertoire, transforms a singing festival into an exciting music drama in the way that he leads the Vienna Philharmonic in a highly flexible and dynamic manner through the musical narrative.

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