Natalie Dessay - Lucia di Lammermoor: Spargi d'amaro pianto - LIVE Met 2007 HIGH QUALITY

[asx5252]

I wanna die like this.

[BeatHaven]

Purete de timbre,fluidite respiratoire,agilite vocale.Tres belle interpretation.Bravo Nathalie,le role te sied a merveille

[Sednonsatiata89]

Will there ever be a DVD release of THIS production? Does anybody know something about it?

[DessayBestSingerII]

@Sednonsatiata89 Not a DVD of this performance...but Natalie is singing Lucia next year at the Met in the same production and it will be broadcast live in HD....but I don't think there'll be a DVD since there's already one of this production with Anna Netrebko as Lucia

[bkmustang07]

Awesome E flat, I love her

[nettraaa]

@bkmustang07 Can you help me out? So in this performance she ends on an E-flat? And in this one: "Spargi d'amaro - Lucia Contest - Natalie Dessay" it ends on an F? But why does the E-flat sound higher than in that performance?

[bkmustang07]

@nettraaa I have to go listen to the 2 and compare

[asx5252]

@nettraaa I haven't heard it but I know that the original key was F but most singers transpose it to Eb. Its likely that Dessay recorded it in F, or has performed it in F at some point.

[regulargonzalez]

@asx5252 She performs it in F in her Lucie de Lammermoor performance. In my experience, it seems Lucie performances tend to keep the original key where Lucia tends to be transposed down.

[rekupp]

@nettraaa Yes. But she does not do the F at the end in Lucie (the French version). Here, she does do the E flat (albeit, scooped).

[regulargonzalez]

@rekupp She does sing an F in Lucie, it's just an F5 instead of an F6 (which, incidentally, is as written; it's just a convention to sing the aria transposed down a tone in Lucia and the last note taken in alt).

[LeNozze44]

Thank you! Finally this scene has been upload in real "high quality". Hey, how excited are you that Natalie is singing Lucia at the Met next season and that it's being shown live in HD? Maybe we will finally get that DVD release.

[DessayBestSingerII]

reaaaaaaaaaaaally excited!!! I know it's in more than a year but I already can't wait for it!!! ^^