Organization

Singer

Soprano

Lisette Oropesa

Lucy

Venera Gimadieva

Tenor

Javier Camarena

Sir Edgar of Ravenswood

Ismael Jordi

Baritone

Artur Rucinski

Lord Henry Ashton

Simone Piazzola

Bass

Roberto Tagliavini

Raymond Bidebent

Marko Mimica

Yijie Shi

Lord Arthur Bucklaw

Mezzo-soprano

Marina Pinchuk

Alice

Alejandro del Cerro

Norman

Conductor

Daniel Oren

Stage director

David Alden

Set designer

Charles Edwards

Costume designer

Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting designer

Adam Silverman

Choreographer

Maxine Braham

Chorus master

Andrés Máspero

Teatro Real de Madrid

Lucia di Lammermoor -  (Lucia of Lammermoor)

Madrid

Spain

Teatro Real

A true paradigm of romantic Italian opera, Lucia di Lammermoor, the most accomplished and famous of Gaetano Donizetti's extensive list of lyrical dramas, aroused admiration from the beginning for making singing a vehicle to move, and not a mere succession of fireworks vowels. The work opened the doors of Paris to the Bergamasco, and it was the only one that was lit up that remained in the repertoire before the Donizetti Renaissance that, from the 1950s on, would definitively consecrate the composer.

The plot revolves around a young woman in love who falls into the deepest despair when she is accused by her lover of treason for having married another man against her will. What the lover does not know is that the nuptials were celebrated under a false presumption of infidelity. The pain that floods the young woman overwhelms her to the point of making her go crazy, giving rise to one of the most famous scenes in the history of opera, both for its musical genius and for the level of psychological introspection it reveals. The inescapable tragic denouement initiates a work that, without a hint of doubt, today maintains its capacity to move intact.

Lucia of Lammermoor

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