Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor
Donizetti’s best-known opera is also one of the most popular. Audiences swooned over the unjust plight of Donizetti’s Lucia (Mariella Devia), whose brother Enrico (Juan Pons) makes her renounce the man she loves, Edgardo (Jerry Hadley). She’s forced into marriage, but goes insane on her wedding night, and in the riveting mad scene, still holding the bloody dagger with which she killed her bridegroom, she can finally voice her true emotions. “Spectacular” doesn’t begin to describe it.
Full SynopsisPerformance Info
Performance Date
Jan 29, 1994
Composer
Gaetano Donizetti
Librettist
Salvadore Cammarano
Run Time
2 HRS 13 MIN
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus