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...extreme. There the Queen accepted a bouquet from young dancers, joined Prince Philip and eight companions in the majestic isolation of the royal box, surrounded by 3,230 empty seats, as 200 singers and musicians staged a special, twelve-minute performance of the second-act finale of Lucia di Lammermoor...
...stopping points: the Jewel Song from Faust, Mi chiamano Mimi from Boheme, Signore, ascolta from Turandot. For insatiable Moffo fans, Angel also offers an album of Coloratura Arias (Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Colin Davis) that are every bit as distinguished, with the single exception of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene: the delivery is splendid, but Moffo sounds about as mad as a hermit thrush...
...Australian singing contest, headed for Britain to study at London's Royal College of Music and landed a $28-a-week small-parts job at London's Covent Garden. She "jogged along" until 1958, when she became an overnight sensation in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor...
...gothic absurdities and focus on its moments of real beauty, including Elvira's pre-wedding aria, "Son vergin vezzosa," and her splendid "Qui la voce sua soave," which introduces a mad scene every bit as effective as the more famous one in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice was precise, agile, light-textured and luminous. The London Observer praised her "extraordinary beauty of tone,'' and the Daily Mail found in her performance an "almost intolerable poignancy...
...feel people should have compassion for the sinners of the world"). In the sleepwalking scene, her red hair streaming above a white, wispy gown and her hands scrubbing themselves in ghastly compulsion, Actress McKenna put on the greatest mad scene seen in the U.S. since Callas' Lucia di Lammermoor...