The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

142 mins | Drama, Music | Feb. 7, 2009

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.

The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

142 mins | Drama, Music | Feb. 7, 2009

The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
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.
Producers Public Broadcasting Service, The Metropolitan Opera
Original title The Metropolitan Opera - Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Directors Mary Zimmerman, Gary Halvorson
Writers Salvadore Cammarano

Cast

Anna Netrebko

as Lucia

Piotr Beczala

as Edgardo

Mariusz Kwiecien

as Enrico

Colin Lee

as Arturo

Ildar Abdrazakov

as Raimondo

Michaela Martens

as Alisa

Michael Myers

as Normanno

Marco Armiliato

as Conductor