Description
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti
Late one night, under a storm-clad sky, two lovers meet in secret. Stalked by fate, haunted by tragedy and kept apart by the heartless machinations of two feuding families, their vows of devotion seem doomed.
But then they sing, and the dazzling hope and desperate passion of Donizetti’s music fills the stage with light.
Opera Australia presents Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, in a new co-production with Teatro La Fenice and Houston Grand Opera. John Doyle directs this fresh new interpretation, with lighting and projections by Jane Cox and period costumes by Liz Ascroft. The result is an atmospheric, psychologically searching take on a thrilling tale.
Donizetti’s score is full of gracious melody and intricate vocal colours, which reach their climax in Lucia’s final aria. It is a mad scene to end all mad scenes, an Olympian display of the power of the human voice, and there are few singers in the world who can do it justice. Emma Matthews is one of them.
See Dame Joan Sutherland performing ‘Eccola!’ (The Mad Scene) in Opera Australia’s 1986 production of Lucia di Lammermoor.
Performed in Italian with English surtitles.
A co-production with Houston Grand Opera and Teatro La Fenice.
Venue: Opera Theatre
Dates: 28 September – 2 November, 2012.
Duration: Approximately three hours including two twenty-minute intervals.
Visit Opera Australia for more information on their 2012 season.
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