Lucia di Lammermoor

Synopsis

Diana Damrau’s reputation as the world’s leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordinary technical virtuosity, her sensitive musicianship and her acute psychological insight. In this DVD of Katie Mitchell’s sometimes radical production of Lucia di Lammermoor from London’s Royal Opera House, she is, as the Financial Times wrote, “brilliantly convincing”. The British award winning director Katie Mitchell – took a revisionist approach to the drama, updating the action to the mid-19th century and applying a feminist slant as she added new and unexpected elements. The Financial Times wrote: “Mitchell shows us on stage personal traumas that a self-respecting woman in the early 19th century was meant to keep to herself. It is a messy, bloody list — nocturnal sex trysts, a knife murder, a miscarriage, a suicide in the bath … In all this Damrau is brilliantly convincing. Her rebellious Lucia is a woman of modern attitudes stuck in a still feudal Victorian world.”

Main Cast

Diana Damrau

Lucia

Age : 52 | Popularity : 3%

Charles Castronovo

Edgardo

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Ludovic Tézier

Enrico

Age : 56 | Popularity : 3%

Robert Lloyd

Alisa

Age : 84 | Popularity : 7%

Kwangchul Youn

Raimondo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Taylor Stayton

Lord Arturo

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Peter Hoare

Normanno

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Daniel Oren

Conductor

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Directing	Director	Katie Mitchell Margaret Williams
Crew	Compositor	Gaetano Donizetti
Writing	Writer	Salvadore Cammarano
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