Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

Synopsis

Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with whom she is in love. However, just as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are the progeny of two feuding families and do not have the right to love each other. Lucia, a magnificent flower shattered by the violence of a society of men, is embodied by South Africa’s Pretty Yende, a rising star of the opera stage, in this production by Andrei Serban, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

Cast

Pretty Yende

Lucia

Piero Pretti

Edgardo di Ravenswood

Oleksiy Palchykov

Arturo Bucklaw

Rafal Siwek

Raimondo Bidebent

Riccardo Frizza

Conductor