The sweet sound of her voice revealed!
In this first post I want to talk about the biggest inspiration in my life, this event twelve years under my life, because after having heard the description of this scene opera the voice of my dad, as we listened to the recording on CD so shocked I was shocked that I decided to become professional opera singer and one day sing this opera with my father as a spectator, the Opera which I refer is " Lucia di Lammermoor" and his famous scene madness.
Lucia di Lammermoor is composed by the musician Gaetano Donizetti, the argument comes from a novel by Walter Scoot (1771 - 1832) entitled " The Bride of Lammermoor ", inspired in turn, distantly, in fact.
The opera takes place in Scotland in the late sixteenth century, at a time of political and religious crisis, supporters of King James VI, Reformed, oppose his mother, the Catholic Mary Stuart.
The characters are:
HENRY ASHTON Señor del castillo de Lammermoor
LUCÍA previous Sister ;
EDGARDO ; Lord of Ravenswood Castle.
ARTURO of Bucklaw ; Noble pretendiente Lucía ;
RAIMUNDO ; ; Capellán del Castillo
Alisa ; ; Acompañante de Lucía
NORMANNO Chief castle guard ;
The story of this opera is based on two families in conflict, "Ashton" and "Ravenswood" main reasons for this conflict are two
- The political conflict, Ashton have appropriated the property of Ravenswood as these had been ruined during the civil war (1570 -1573) as being committed to the losing cause, that of Stuart
- personal and religious conflict, Enrico Ashton has tried to ban the burial ceremony of Lord Ravenswood ( Edgardo's father) as the rite of the Church of Scotland.
But Enrico Ashton is also ruined and goes through a delicate political situation in which only finds an outlet: the wedding of his sister Lucia to someone that can save his family ...
The ruined Lord Enrico Ashton, angered by opposition from his sister to marry Lord Arturo Bucklaw, learns that Lucia is in secret with his great enemy, Edgardo di Ravenswood.
During one of his secret meetings Edgardo Lucia tells must leave for France immediately. But first, the two young men swear eternal love and fidelity before God and exchanged rings to seal their commitment.
Enrico
to learn that Edgardo has gone to Paris, decided to take this opportunity to deceive his sister Lucia interfering with the delivery of letters both sent and thus make doubt his love, and to finish the matter Enrico shows her sister a false proof of the infidelity of Edgardo, Lucia believes to have been betrayed, undergoes to the will of his brother and sign the marriage contract with Lord Arturo and just when it appears just Edgardo, who accuses her of infidelity, curses and stormed out the ceremony and between whispers about what it's shameless Lucia the wedding party continued and only stopped short by the tragic news that exposes Raimondo: Lucia has lost razóny has murdered her husband.
girl appears with a bloodied wedding dress while delirious imagining your wedding ceremony with her lover Edgardo and then altered by the memory of the curse of it, falls senseless and die of madness and pain.
Edgardo's death still unknown Lucia, Raimondo confirmed soon the people of Lammermoor. Before the funeral, horrified by the events, Edgardo stabs himself and dies thinking Lucia.
This is a short synopsis of the opera, the scene where Lucia raves and fantasizes about marrying Edgar, best known as the scene of madness, is the scene that my father he described as the most impressive ever witnessed in an opera, words and expressions so impressed me that when I said at the National Conservatory of Music in Mexico City I have the authority to sing opera, became one of my biggest dreams and aspirations of someday playing the Lucia in this opera, but my father just might be my audience from the sky.
I leave the videos for "The scene of madness "I hope that wish to see them, the singer is Natalie Dessay and my taste is the best interpretation of Lucia I have witnessed, at least on video.
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