58 Sopranos in the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene part 5/8

Andrea Rost 1999
Leyla Gencer 1957
Dolores Wilson 1951
Elizabeth Futral 2008
Beverly Sills 1968
Martile Rowland 1993
Anna Moffo 1969

Category:

Music

Tags:

• opera
• donizetti

[KathrynBoussemart]

Is the Moffo excerpt from the infamous February 1, 1969 MET broadcast?

[coloraturafan]

Yes it is.

[AiTaiwandeRen]

My lord, that's horrible. Is this Donizetti? Is it even singing?

[coloraturafan]

What kind of comment is that? To whom are you commenting on? The whole collection? In any case, to answer your very rude question: yes it is singing, and yes it is Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, if not his own flute cadenza.

[TheRealAngelHeart]

Gencer - Le Regina definitely the best in my opinion. Muscality, expression , and beauty of the voice.

Sills is totally in her element here; no complaints. She's a close second.

Futral is HORRIBLE, i can't believe she even dares perform this scene. Rost should stay away from it too, even if she does not squeal as much. Rowland, just about OK. Moffo, mmmhhh way past her prime, her high notes sound like squeals too, and all of it is very much out of tune.

[SiEtIn1]

for me gencer takes the cake here with beatiful tone as usual and clean coloratura, and a big sonorous high note, but sills gets to eat one slice cause she's always great. poor elizabeth futral sounds like she's having an actual, real, mad scene, as in going coo coo bananas on stage and about to start stabbing cast and audience members for real

[arturo8402]

My picks would have to be Gencer, Sills, Wilson. I usually love Moffo, especially in Lucia, but she sounded like she was not having her best night

[Fegen]

I liked Leyla Gencer and Dolores Wilson. Beverly Sills always hit the notes right

on the mark but her voice never excited me. As for Elizabeth Futral that is enough

to give anyone a headache and Anna Moffo is horrible to say the least.

[reachforthenote]

Dolores Wilson's career at the MET was cut short because of unacceptable behavior by Rudolph Bing which ended her blossoming career. Dolores was the original Baby Doe

In the B....... Of. B.... Doe, and went on to a long career in musical theatre.

[marioegorga]

Elizabeth Futral ;The most horrible Lucia's cadenza ever..

[skippyd89]

R.P.I. Dolores Wilson

[NEBESHIKU]

Futral is just a nasty bitch. I don't blame her for singing, after all she gets paid to do so by the idiots that go and see her "sing".

[ILoveJoanSutherland]

Mrs.Futral is singing a part in moll, but it is in dur...

[gayo72]

oohh my god. elizabeth get back to your books and practice.