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Charles Castronovo TENOR
http://www.roh.org.uk/people/charles-castronovo
Lucia di Lammermoor
30 OCTOBER—27 NOVEMBER 2017 MAIN STAGE
http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/lucia-di-lammermoor-by-katie-mitchell
Thursday 2 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Lucia di Lammermoor: Thursday 2 November 2017, 7.15pm
http://www.roh.org.uk/events/5l5gk
Donizetti’s opera of a woman forced to breaking point is conducted by Michele Mariotti with a cast including Lisette Oropesa, Charles Castronovo and Christopher Maltman, in Katie Mitchell’s powerful production.
Wednesday 8 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Saturday 11 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Wednesday 15 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Conducted by Michele Mariotti Oropesa Jordi Maltman PertusiTortiseKimLloyd Royal Opera ChorusManning Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Early startBUY100+ tickets£29 - £165Lucia di Lammermoor
Monday 20 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Friday 24 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Monday 27 November 2017, 7.15pm • Main Stage
Lucia di Lammermoor Insight (The Royal Opera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=819&v=76726__eeV0
Immerse yourself in Donizetti’s powerfully evocative opera with renowned director Katie Mitchell and members of the creative team as they reveal their plans for the premiere of a new production. Find out more at http://www.roh.org.uk/lucia
To find out more about Katie Mitchell's production of Lucia di Lammermoor visit the ROH website or sign up for a free Digital Programme at http://www.roh.org.uk/publications. Use promo code FREELUCIA to get yours free.
(As the premiere approaches, the digital programme will be updated with films, articles and pictures to bring you closer to the production.)
Lucia di Lammermoor is Donizetti's tragic masterpiece. The opera marked the beginning of his partnership with regular collaborator librettist Salvadore Cammarano – who, as was the fashion of the day, looked to Walter Scott. Cammarano’s adaptation of Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor moved Donizetti greatly, and in the subsequent score he produced not only some of his most beautiful but also his most dramatically potent music. Within a few years of its premiere in Naples on 26 September 1835 Lucia had entered the international repertory. Here it has remained, despite a practice in the 19th and 20th centuries to make cuts that obscured Donizetti’s deft handling of his ensemble cast, with a consequent impact on the opera’s brilliant dramatic pacing.
Lucia’s ‘Mad Scene’ is the opera’s most famous moment – but it is Donizetti’s recollection of previous motifs, such as Lucia’s Act I aria ‘Regnava nel silenzio’ and her duet with Edgardo ‘Verranno a te sull’aure’ that poignantly make manifest her distracted mind. Other highlights include the acclaimed sextet ‘Chi mi frena in tal momento’, where Edgardo interrupts the wedding party, the furious duet between Enrico and Edgardo at the start of Act III and the opera’s closing Tomb Scene, with its heartfelt and sombre depiction of Edgardo’s loss. Director Katie Mitchell (Written on Skin) sets The Royal Opera’s new production in the 1840s and focusses on how an intelligent woman, failed by the men in her life, experiences a horrifying mental breakdown.
The Power of the Female in Lucia di Lammermoor (The Royal Opera)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Zj7rgXpY8
http://www.roh.org.uk/news/lucia-di-lammermoor-insights-event-to-be-live-streamed-on-10-march-2016