Gaetano Donizetti was a great tunesmith, and his Lucia di Lammermoor is practically overstuffed with memorable melodies. Lucia’s Mad Scene (“Il dolce suono”) is an evergreen for the operatically ...

In 1908, the superstar tenor Enrico Caruso and five colleagues made a recording that became an instant legend — both for the quality of its musical artistry, and for its exorbitant price. Fittingly, ...

The two performances of Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor at the Teatru Manoel on 17 and 19 March brings back to the Manoel stage a masterpiece which has never waned in popularity, neither here ...

Gaetano Donizetti was in a generous mood when he wrote the great sextet that serves as the climax to Act II of his most famous opera, "Lucia di Lammermoor": Within the space of four minutes, he gave ...

If you’ve noticed people stumbling out of the Kennedy Center lately looking dazed, ashen or plain loopy, you’ll know they’ve just attended Washington National Opera’s boldly off-beat production of ...

Lucia di Lammermoor is scheduled in Lyric Opera’s fall season between two massive new productions: the steampunk spectacle of Das Rheingold (which you can still catch on Saturday), and Les Troyens, ...

“Vehicles of vocalism and nothing else”. Those are the words of Virgil Thomson, critic extraordinaire of the 20th century, used to describe for posterity the works of Gaetano Donizetti. Saturday ...

Despite what you may read on IMDb and elsewhere, Enrico Caruso does not appear in this film though it was mimed to a recording by Caruso. Mendel’s system utilized prerecorded commercial recordings of ...