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The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

2009-02-07
8
it 142m
DramaMusic
Star soprano Anna Netrebko adds Donizetti’s hapless heroine to her growing list of Met triumphs in this production by Mary Zimmerman that updates the events to the 19th century. Rising young tenor sensation Piotr Beczała is Edgardo and Mariusz Kwiecien plays Lucia’s brother Enrico whose brutal authority forces her to deny her heart and marry for the sake of her family. The famous mad scene brilliantly depicts the cascading fragments of Lucia’s disintegrating mind.

Producer

Peter Gelb

Director

Gary Halvorson

Writer

Salvadore Cammarano

Original Music Composer

Gaetano Donizetti

Director

Mary Zimmerman

Conductor

Marco Armiliato

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Status

Released

Countries

  • United States of America

Companies

  • The Metropolitan Opera