Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia: Royal Opera House (Richard Bonynge) (1980)

Name: Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia: Royal Opera House (Richard Bonynge)
Rating: 4.2

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Donizetti's operatic portrayal of Lucrezia Borgia is one of the most demanding roles for a soprano, and only such accomplished stars as Joan Sutherland have risen to the challenge. Lucrezia was notorious in Renaissance Ferrara as much for her beauty as for the political intrigue and suspicious deaths that surrounded her and her family. Here Sutherland deftly captures the complexity of a powerful, vengeful woman, who is at the same time a loving mother - in the final scenes she chillingly shows her unsuspecting victims the coffins in which they will be buried, but cannot bear the heartbreaking revelations that follow.
Richard Bonynge conducts a cast including Alfredo Kraus as Gennaro, supported by the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House and Royal Opera Chorus, in John Copley's production for The Royal Opera.
Actors:: Joan Sutherland, Alfredo Kraus, Anne Howells, Stafford Dean, Francis Egerton, Roderick Kennedy, Paul Hudson, Robin Leggate, Jonathan Summers, Philip Gelling, Michael Goldthorpe, Edward Sadler, Anthony Smith, Alan Jenkins, Gwynneth Price, Richard Bonynge, Royal Opera Chorus
Directors:: Brian Large
Studio:: Select Music And Video Dist Ltd
Genres:: Music & Musicals, Performing Arts, Special Interest