Description
180-gram vinyl 3LP box set!
First vinyl edition of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor
Remastered from the original analog tapes
33 1/3 lacquer cuts by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
Pressed in France by Marciac Workshop Pressings
Limited to 5,000 hand-numbered copies
16-bit album download included
Includes 40-page booklet and a facsimile of the performance program
Celebrating the 100th birthday of acclaimed soprano Maria Callas!
Frédéric D'Oria-Nicolas, founder and director of The Lost Recordings record label, explains how this exceptional 3LP release of Lucia di Lammermoor, recorded September 29, 1955, came to be. Recorded at the Städtische Oper Berlin, the cast featured Di Stefano, Panerai, Karajan and the renowned and influential soprano Maria Callas.
"In May 2022, while we were working in the archives of the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), we came across the original tapes of this mythical recording made in 1955. It was certainly one of the most significant testimonies of the lyric art of the twentieth century.
"Despite the fact that the first forty seconds of the first tape had deteriorated, when we listened to the minutes of the recording that followed, we heard timbres with a richness and a dynamic that bore no comparison to other recordings that have been known until the present. It took four months of painstaking work to restore all the brilliance to the orchestra, to the Scala choir and to the legendary voices of this poignant slice of history and of music.
"We wanted to be able to release our first vinyl edition of the opera in a limited number of 5,000 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Maria Callas. Kevin Gray made the cutting and the three records were pressed in our very own workshop in the south of France, MWP, to our usual stringent standards."
