Donizetti - Lucrezia Borgia - Final Scene - Montserrat Caballé, Alain Vanzo (Carnegie Hall, 1965)

Gaetano Donizetti
Lucrezia Borgia
Tu pur qui? non sei fuggito? ... M'odi, ah m'odi... io non t'imploro ... Maffio muore ... Madre se ognor lontano
Lucrezia Borgia - Motserrat Caballé
Gennaro - Alain Vanzo
American Opera Society Orchestra
Jonel Perlea, conductor
Carnegie Hall, April 20, 1965

[@liguten]

A STAR IS BORN.

[@vale86301]

Favolosa e celestiale!!

[@jjmboston9526]

This sounds like Alfredo Kraus. But it ends with applause so it is the live recording from Carnegie, not the commercial recording she did with Kraus.

[@judyjones2475]

So very special, no wonder the audience were in raptures ,Montserrat the magical one and only 💖💝💘

[@antoniopolignano14]

Incredibile: il finale che Donizetti avrebbe voluto (1840). La Caballé è al solito una meraviglia e le fa onore avere rinunciato a "Era desso il figlio mio".

[@sergiovanelli7420]

Siamo in paradiso!!!!!

[@lynnefisher4167]

How amazing. She’s so young here. Skill & talent right from the start. What a wonderful career she has had. Miss her, two years after her death. Thank you for keeping her here with these beautiful clips.

[@enthusedtosing9655]

That beautiful ending is sadly practically never used.

[@ahogbin2644]

This is the famous performance which launched her international career - replacing a pregnant Marilyn Horne. The voice utterly fabulous in quality, floated on endless breath and with impeccable musicianship. How lucky we were to have both Caballé and Sutherland interpreting the great bel canto roles at the same time and yet quite differently. This version uses Donizetti's later revised version deleting the florid cabaletta which both she and Sutherland later made such a spectacular conclusion to the opera. Lovely too to hear Alain Vanzo a wonderfully stylish tenor.

[@lawally]

That scream at 11.48…

[@jesusmunoz2400]

Caballe impresionante, Vanzo demasiado verista en este repertorio.

[@sergiovanelli7420]

Siamo in paradiso!!!!!