It fails because of the partners!

Edita Gruberova copes despite vorangeschrittenem age her role with flying colors. It overcomes the difficult passages and coloratura with supreme confidence. I think she has Lucias first aria "Regnava nel Silenzio" never sung better.
It offers in this first piece of a firework of feeling, drama and dazzling top notes which bring the raging heart of the opera lover. The mad scene is excellent except for a few small slasher. At the end of the great aria she has problems with the three painted "it" to keep you safe and sound a few notes in my opinion a bit spicy, but I think about it can be overlooked because Gruberova has once and for work of vocal power and drama.
She is doing really excellent, very unlike her tenor partner.

With Jose 'Bros is the problem. He has a very thin voice.
In the duets with Gruberova he is barely audible. His timbre is boring and you can hear in his arias nothing of great tragedy. Because of a lack of dramatic representation power and boring-writing I would say he is completely miscast in the role of Edgardo.
The rest of the cast is well packed to Georg Tichy.
Tichy has the same problems as Jose`Bros, although I would say that more deficits are still recognizable in Tichy's voice. He sounds hoarse and constantly crying more than he sings. I never wonder why such a wonderful singer as the Gruberova worthy partners are placed on the page.

Chorus and orchestra are gut.Friedrich Haider accompanied his actors sensitively and with feeling. He is not a Marcello Viotti or Tullio Serafin, but what is not, can still become.

I think of buying this CD is worth it despite the few mediocre performer. One should bite the bullet and get the recording, because if only because Edita Gruberova is worth buying this complete recording. Fans of Edita can do without in no case this complete opera recording, because this is almost certainly the last complete recording of Lucia di Lammermoor with Gruberova in the title role.
It is a great pity that Gruberova never has the opportunity to sing with equal partners.