Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

With Lisette Oropesa (Lucia), Artur Ruciński (Enrico Ashton), Javier Camarena (Edgardo di Ravenswood) — David Alden (stage director), Daniel Oren (conductor)

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Cast

David Alden  — Stage director

Ian Rutherford  — Co-stage director

Charles Edwards  — Set designer

Brigitte Reiffenstuel  — Costumes designer

Adam Silverman  — Lighting designer

Maxime Braham  — Choreographer

Lisette Oropesa  — Lucia

Javier Camarena  — Edgardo

Program notes

The incandescent Lisette Oropesa steps commandingly into the title role of Donizetti's classic tragedy Lucia di Lammermoor at Madrid's Teatro Real, the star of a captivating production directed by David Alden. Lucia, based on the protagonist of Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor, finds herself at the heart of a fatal family feud set against a somber Scottish backdrop, where she falls in love with the scion of the rival Ravenswood family, Edgardo (a typically masterful Javier Camarena). Lucia's brother Enrico (Artur Ruciński), meanwhile, has other plans for her, scheming to marry her to Lord Arturo Bucklaw (Yijie Shi) and prepared to stop at nothing to persuade his sister to abandon her true love. But the arranged marriage only drives Lucia to despair — a state of affairs that threatens to turn deadly…

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