LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR:Donizetti
Original Air Date: 04/21/1973
Molinari-Pradelli; Scotto, Alexander, Sereni, Plishka
SID.18410208
This is Scotto’s only Met broadcast of Lucia, even though she has two 39th street (old house) performances. Alexander is well suited to Edgardo and his Lucias include Sutherland, Moffo, Sills, Robinson, and Negri (his last in a Bronx Parks assignment). Sereni was a regular Enrico and Molinari-Pradelli is a solid maestro.
I don’t know the exact condition of Scotto in this broadcast but the previous performance she cancelled after Act 1, and this broadcast is her final New York Lucia. She does do five tour Lucias after this broadcast. The male contingent is fairly standard B+ casting from the Met, not more, not less. This is the first Met broadcast of Lucia since the Moffo, Gedda performance (debut of Franci and Bruson) of 2/1/69 which is a performance not yet on Sirius, but Jackson spends some time on it (and I remember it like yesterday). I love Lucia, but this was a bad period at the Met for the Bride of Lammermoor.
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