Name: Lucia di Lammermoor
Start: 2021-06-20T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-06-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opernhaus

Admin

Organization

Singer

Baritone

Massimo Cavalletti

Lord Henry Ashton

Tenor

Piotr Beczała

Sir Edgar of Ravenswood

Bass

Oleg Tsibulko

Raymond Bidebent

Iain Milne

Norman

Conductor

Speranza Scappucci

Stage director

Tatjana Gürbaca

Costume designer

Silke Willrett

Lighting designer

Klaus Grünberg

Chorus master

Janko Kastelic

Dramaturge

Beate Breidenbach

Mezzo-soprano

Roswitha Christina Müller

Alice

Set designer

Soprano

Irina Lungu

Lucy

Noelia Finocchiaro

Sava Baumgartner

Tobias Führer

Jack Csajka

Andres Wittmann

Ludwig Hoefs

Raphael Maurer

Samuel Maurer

Opernhaus Zürich

Orchestra

Philharmonia Zürich

Others

Chor der Oper Zürich

Italian

Lucia di Lammermoor -  (Lucia of Lammermoor)

Zurich

Switzerland

Opernhaus

Studiobühne

«Love, destruction-laden love, without which opera remains cold»: this was the stuff that Donizetti demanded of material for an opera – and it was what he got in spades from Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor. The fragile Lucia, mourning the death of her mother, has fallen in love with Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother Enrico. Edgardo is willing to disregard the longstanding hatred between the two families, but Lucia fears her brother’s hard-heartedness, and begs Edgardo to keep their union secret. Enrico is enraged when he hears of his sister’s love for Edgardo – for Enrico has arranged to marry Lucia off to the rich Arturo Bucklaw, hoping to rescue his own debt-laden finances in the process. With the aid of forged letters, Lucia is convinced of Edgardo’s infidelity, and Enrico unrelentingly pressures her until she agrees to the arranged marriage. But she is ultimately broken by her unrequited love. As if possessed, she stabs Arturo on their wedding night. Her own death becomes Lucia’s only possible escape.And when Edgardo hears her death knell sounding, he in turn takes his own life.

The world premiere of Lucia in 1835 was one of the greatest triumphs the Neapolitan theater has ever experienced and remains a sensation to this day. Its popularity is in part thanks to Lucia’s famous mad scene, one of the most moving operatic scenes of all time, which doubles as a vocal and dramatic tour de force display for the singer in the title role. The Russian soprano Irina Lungu could be won for this artistic tour de force. Piotr Beczała returns to the Opernhaus to play her beloved. Tatjana Gürbaca, well-known in Zurich for her precise character direction, directs for the stage, and Italian conductor Speranza Scappucci appears at the podium of the Philharmonia.

Production booklet

Further reading