Lucia of Lammermoor by Donizetti, og. 24 aza. 2022, Noiztik (2022/2023), Zuzendaria Nadezhda Stolbova,, Zuzendaria Konstantin Chudovsky, Ekaterinburg Opera, Ekaterinburg, Russia

The libretto is based on Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor: Scotland of the 18th century, two opposing surnames, forbidden love, a forged letter, an interrupted wedding - and the scene of the heroine's madness, for which Gaetano Donizetti wrote his most famous aria. Even those who have never heard "Lucia di Lammermoor" know this particular aria, Il dolce suono - it was performed by Diva Plavalaguna in "The Fifth Element". In the first production of Lucia in Yekaterinburg, the action is turned even further into the depths of history - at a time when Scotland consisted of several hundred clans, alternately at war with each other. The stage entourage matches the place and character of the action: cold coloring, rough texture - brutalism, which came into vogue thanks to the Game of Thrones and other television sagas. It should not be surprising that the wardrobe of the title character will not have a white wedding dress with a veil, which has become an obligatory staged attribute of Lucia di Lammermoor: the fact that brides must certainly wear white was invented already in the era of Donizetti.