Edda Moser Lucia di Lammermoor

rarity!!! Edda Moser in Spargi d'amaro pianto - Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor in 1979

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[OperaMystery80]

Edda singing Lucia is good enough for a recital or aria-showcase album, but to my knowledge she never sang the full Lucia on stage. As mentioned, her voice is too robust much like Montserrat Caballe's Lucia The right type of voice is a bel canto trained lyric coloratura, even if it's a lighter/smaller voice. Callas' Lucia was good because of her bel canto experience. This was also the same with Leyla Gencer. Check out Sutherland, Moffo, Sills, Gruberova, Devia and Netrebko.

[gi1ro2la3mo4]

@OperaMystery80

Edda Moser Lucia has sung on stage several times.

Lucia's voice is not slight. Is that of a coloratura soprano liricodramatico as Callas, Sutherland, Moser.

[juankmilo1980curro]

I am wondering how she breaths, does she? This is what I call a tru dramatic coloratura. I compare her with current dramatic coloratura sopranos and there's no fighting at all. Bravissima!

[killerbunny123123]

ur totally right....Edda Moser is ABSOLUTELY my favourite dramatic coloratura.....and yes, she breaths REALLY softly and quietly.

[pedrofribeiro]

@gi1ro2la3mo4 Absolutely fantastic! Magnificent. Moser's voice is/was the absolute voice. Down to a low Eb and up to an Ab6! Do you happen to have the whole performance?

[OperaMystery80]

@gi1ro2la3mo4 Wow I had no idea Edda sang the entire Lucia. If you have any pirated CD's of her Lucia, please let's do business and I'll buy it from you. I'm a fan of Edda, but just surprised to hear her sing Donizetti's Lucia, a role that I don't associate with Edda who wasn't a bel canto singer, otherwise she'd have sung roles like Norma, Lucrezia, Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda, Roberto Deveraux, Armida, Puritani, Sonnambula etc.

[FloriaTosca90]

She is an interesting Lucia. My favourite one is obvioisly the eternal Joan Sutherland, but they two are sooo different! We agree that Edda Moser has a plenty and heavier voice, very powerful, maybe too much for this role, but still interesting. See this one how much is slow: it is not simple!

[tomasburi]

Edda will never stop to astonish people. She has voice control of a lyric coloratura, richness of a mezzo, intensity of a dramatic soprano - and of course, ultimate level of virtuosity.

[raigekimaru]

@AmericanEvita

I like sutherland best, but then again, I usualy do =)

[AmericanEvita]

There's nothing wrong with Edda's rendition of Lucia's Mad Scene. She has a big voice but so did Callas & Sutherland. Like MastersoftheOpera stated, the voice is too healthy and round when it ought to sound fragile. Sutherland's early Lucias were perfect because she sounded delicate enough. Callas was also able to get the character's frailty. Caballe sang Lucia but sounded far too vigorous. Moser is too "strong" as Lucia. Anna Moffo, for me, personally, was the best Lucia.

[Homoclassicus]

It's very beautiful, because her timbre is perhaps too heavy and dark for Lucia, especially at the lower middle. I'm amazed at her breath control (especially from 2:34 to 2:47!) and at the sheer surprise of seeing such a heavy dramatic voice being able to sing the vocal scales and high notes. That said, I feel this isn't an ideal role to her voice, and the final High E-flat sounded slightly off pitch to me (I may be wrong). The decrescendi and trills weren't totally even, too.