Lucia of Lammermoor by Donizetti, From (2022/2022), Directed by Barbara Wysocka, Conductor Evelino Pidò, Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany

"When great emotions cannot be honestly expressed, they explode with the power of an atomic bomb" (Barbara Wysocka). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor – Romeo and Juliet , so to speak , in the Scottish Lowlands – is by no means a private love tragedy, but an eminently political story that shows how a power system deforms human relationships to the core and ultimately eats them away. Donizetti lent his most haunting music to the rising and dying of betrayed love: revenge is bloody, madness is deadly. And the abused feelings - says the director - "destroy everything and everyone".