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Donizetti: Lucia Di Lammermoor with Maria Callas, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Tullio Serafin, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus by Callas, Maria (1997) Audio CD EMI Classic. Vintage made in USA collectible classical music audio cd
“The character of Lucia has become an icon in opera and beyond, an archetype of the constrained woman asserting herself in society. She reappears as a touchstone for such diverse later characters as Flaubert’s adulterous Madame Bovary and the repressed Englishwomen in the novels of E.M. Forster. The insanity that overtakes and destroys Lucia, depicted in opera’s most celebrated mad scene, has especially captured the public imagination. Donizetti’s handling of this fragile woman’s state of mind remains seductively beautiful, thoroughly compelling, and deeply disturbing. Madness as explored in this opera is not merely something that happens as a plot function: it is at once a personal tragedy, a political statement, and a healing ritual.”
