A favorite Donizetti performance from grimoaldo2

The Greatest Thing Ever (AKA Lisette Oropesa) in a stunning mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor with the excellent Artur Rucinski and Roberto Tagliavini in an extremely effective production by David Alden at the Teatro Real in Madrid.

Daniel Oren is the conductor. Absolute pandemonium in the prolonged ovation at the end, I don’t know how she manages to keep her arms up like that for such a long time.

Ben Miller feels similarly:

I cannot imagine a more perfect complete performance of something, of anything, than this. Absolutely astonishing vocalization, complete characterization. Goosebumps, grand opera buzz, the Greatest Thing Ever.

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