Dame Joan Sutherland & Robert Merrill. Lucia di Lammemoor.

Lucia di Lammemoor. G. Donizetti.
Il pallor funeto, orrendo.
Che fia!
Se tradirmi tu potrai.
Lucia - Joan Sutherland
Edgardo - Renato Cioni
Enrico - Robert Merrill
Raimondo - Cesare Siepi
Arturo - Kenneth MacDonald
Alisa - Ana Raquel Satra
Normanno - Rinaldo Pelizzoni
Conductor John Pritchard - 1961(STU)
Orchestra - Santa Cecilia
Chorus - Santa Cecilia

[@debbiewoodburn6786]

A wonderful performance from both Sutherland and Merrill. I love Joan's voice. It speaks to my heart, just like Kathleen Ferrier's.

[@MrMin316]

La Stupenda...Sung with such ravishing ease and beauty. The tonal beauty is quite often quite magical.

[@paullewis2413]

Joan may not have been the complete artist that Maria was but in her prime there was no other soprano before or since with such a thrilling voice, a singer for whom the most difficult coloratura demands held no terrors - absolutely unique! Paired with the glorious baritone of Robert Merrill you have singing of unsurpassed brilliance, possibly in all history.

[@MrMin316]

Disagree that Callas was a complete artist . If that was the case then she would have a voice like Sutherland, which she did not have.

[@TheVaughan5]

I’ve never been the greatest admirer of John Pritchard from what I heard in live performances, however in this recording he is outstanding. Blows Richard Bonynge’s performance from the 1971 recording into the weeds.

[@williammaddox3339]

I think in the final cabaletta Bonynge's conducting blows Pritchard's into the water.