Mad Scene 2006: "Il dolce suono"-Christiane Boesiger (Lucia)

christiane boesiger sings the madness aria from Donizetti's opera "Lucia di Lammermoor",part 01 (intense acting / unusual: glassharmonica)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• opera
• madness
• aria
• lucia
• lammermoor
• christiane
• boesiger
• donizetti
• soprano
• live

[KitanaiBaishunfu]

I like how you actually see the dead husband rather than just having her walk on stage covered in blood. But both interpretations have their strengths...

But wow..  great Lucia...

[penguindiva7]

I have just decided that if I ever get to perform this role, I want to play with a corpse in this scene.

[chrisscruzzz]

EWWWWWWWWW!!!! >:P

[ReginaResnik]

where is belcanto???? Oh , pitty....

[ferrykalos]

Please, don't let her to sing it again!

[Zaputero]

@mrlammermoor

I will never say "Eccola!" refered to a person who is in a place but to someone who has just appeared. What could this mean in the dramatic context of this moment? "Look at here! Haven't you seen Lucia lying on the floor"? And the chorus sing astonished about the look of her face, as you say. This has a drammatic meaning: you don't react astonished to something you have in front of you for several minutes. This text only has sense if Lucia has just appeared at this moment.

[hhvelasq]

@evacookie913 I feel the same. Still in shock.

[mrlammermoor]

@Zaputero

Actually he says "eccola" - "here is she"... "here" doesn't necessarily imply that she is actually coming from somewhere

Actually the Chorus says "oh giusto cielo! par dalla tomba uscita" - "Oh fair heaven! She seems to have emerged from a tomb"... also not necessarily referring to coming from somewhere because they are referring to the look on her face and (if wanted) the blood on her dress.

[evacookie913]

it's really disturbing, Lucia in a bride dress covered with blood AND embracing a dead man AND thinking he's Edgardo and getting undressed...it's the most disturbing Mad Scene scenery I've seen until now

[Zaputero]

@npatricialm

Excuse me. I only want to remark that the action over the stage has nothing to do with the corus and the bass are saying. Anyone who doesn't know the drama won't be able to interpret what you are saying. He would think that the dead man she is embracing is Edgardo instead of Artutro. The regisseur must show the original work of the author and not his own interpretation.