No opera company should be asked to survive without an occasional dip into the life-giving force of "Lucia di Lammermoor." It is, in many ways, the prototypical opera: the one in which all the ...

While the music in Lucia di Lammermoor is both extraordinarily accomplished and structurally coherent, the same cannot be said of the plot. Donizetti wasn’t the first composer to set a farcical, ...

Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" builds inexorably toward its great third-act mad scene in which the title character — caught between her manipulative brother Enrico, who has forced her into a ...

Go inside rehearsals for the Act 1 finale of Opera Orlando's production of LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR, which performs April 19th and 21st, 2024. Opera Orlando heads to Westeros as it closes its 2023-24 ...

In its second revival, directed this time by Omer Ben-Seadia, Emilio Sagi’s 2012 production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor returns to The Israeli Opera for the third time, in this year’s ...

While the San Francisco Opera was rolling out its new season up north, Opera San Jose did the same with a gripping new production of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" that brought out all the hot ...

Originally seen in 2007, “Lucia di Lammermoor” was the first of three Met productions by Mary Zimmerman, and its deeply contextualized stagings have aroused very mixed feelings among devoted ...