Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia - DVD

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Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (OAF4026D)<br /> <br /> Joan Sutherland (Lucrezia Borgia); Margreta Elkins (Maffio Orsini); Ron Stevens (Gennaro); Robert Allman (Don Alfonso); Robin Donald (Jeppo Liverotto); Lyndon Terracini (Apostolo Gazella); Elizabethan Sydney Orchestra; Richard Bonynge<br /> <br /> Lucrezia Borgia, infamous noblewoman of the Renaissance, has outlived three husbands and is now married to Don Alfonso, Duke of Ferrara. After the Borgia’s palace is defaced by vandals, Lucrezia demands the desecrator’s death to avenge the insult. When the noble young soldier Gennaro is arrested for the crime, Lucrezia’s thirst for vengeance and murder sets in motion a tragic chain of events that eventually destroys her enemies and herself.<br /> <br /> "Lucrezia Borgia is a lyrical masterly example of Donizetti's art that delights the ear endlessly…Sutherland made the low key arias breathtaking vehicles for the most ravishing singing one is likely to hear on any opera stage in the world." (The Financial Times)