LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR - La Scala 1929 (Complete Opera Donizetti)

Mercedes Capsir - Lucia
Enzo de Muro Lomanto - Edgardo
Enrico Molinari - Enrico
Salvatore Baccaloni - Raimondo

Toscanini's La Scala colleague Lorenzo Molajoli conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Milan.

The first complete recording of Lucia di Lammermoor (September, 1929).

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Act 1

Preludio - Maestoso (0:01)
"Percorrete le spiagge vicine" (2:02)
"Tu sei turbato!" ... "Cruda, funesta smania" (6:17) ... "La pietade in suo favore" (Enrico)
Maestoso (12:03) "Ancor non giunse!" ... "Regnava nel silenzio" ... "Quando rapito in estasi" (Lucia)
"Egli s'avanza" ... "Sulla tomba che rinserra" (26:17) ... "Ah! verranno a te sull'aure" (31:31) (Edgardo, Lucia)

Act 2

"Lucia fra poco a te verrà" (35:45) ... "Appressati, Lucia" ... "Il pallor funesto, orrendo" ... "Soffriva nel pianto" (43:23) ... "Se tradirmi tu potrai"
"Per te d'immenso giubilo" (51:19) ... "Dov'è Lucia?" ... "Chi mi frena in tal momento" (Sextet) (58:45) ... "T'allontana sciagurato"

Act 3

"D'immenso giubilo" (1:06:58) ... "Ah! cessate quel contento" ... "Oh! qual funesto avvenimento!" (1:11:24)
"Il dolce suono" (Lucia, "Mad Scene") (1:12:57) ... "Ohimè! sorge il tremendo fantasma" ... *
"Ardon gl'incensi" (1:18:54) ... "Spargi d'amaro pianto" (1:24:03)

Maestoso (1:27:43) "Tombe degli avi miei ... Fra poco a me ricovero ... Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali" (1:39:39) (Edgardo)
* You have to love that wild portamento at 1:16:08. Never heard something like that done before. Adds a bit of frisson...

"Donizetti's warbling young lady in her bridal frock does not hint at Scott's poor Lucy Ashton, shuddering in the chimney, raving mad, and hissing out: ' So, you've ta'en up your bonny bridegroom! ' " (E. I. Stevenson, 1898)

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Don't miss Capsir's complete recordings of 'Il Barbiere' and 'La Traviata' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uRDep7g6Ro and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMPzTfPnHFg

No living soprano could outsing Mercedes Capsir (1895-1969). In 1916, she made her debut at the Liceo in Barcelona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro Nacional San Carlos in Lisbon, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, as well as at the Paris Opera in 1917. Gilda was her debut role at all these opera houses.
Her Italian debut took place in Bologna, as Rosina in ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'', followed by Elvira in ''I Puritani'', in Venice, opposite Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, she also appeared in Rome, before reaching La Scala in Milan, in 1924, again as Gilda, opposite baritone Carlo Galeffi and tenor Miguel Fleta, and conducted by Arturo Toscanini.
Capsir sang mainly in Europe, and in a very limited repertory, other roles included: Amina in ''La Sonnambula'', Lucia in "Lucia di Lammermoor'', and Violetta in ''La Traviata''.

Born Vincenzo De Muro, Enzo De Muro Lomanto (Tenor) studied in Naples, adding "Lomanto" to his name to avoid confusion with another tenor, Bernardo De Muro. He made his debut at Catanzaro, as Alfredo, in 1925. Shortly afterwards, he appeared at the San Carlo in Naples, as Cavaradossi. He made his La Scala debut in 1928 as Tonio. De Muro Lomanto made a number of records and can be heard in the first complete recording of Lucia di Lammermoor, opposite Mercedes Capsir. He married the lyric soprano Toti Dal Monte in Sydney, Australia, during a 1928 operatic tour. The wedding party created international headlines when it gave the Fascist salute on the steps of St Mary's Cathedral. He died in 1952, aged 49, in Naples, from undisclosed causes.

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