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Lucia di Lammermoor
Opéra Bastille
19h30
Dress Cocktail attire
On the hills of Lammermoor, in southern Scotland, at sunrise each morning, Lucia meets a mysterious young man with whom she has fallen in love: Edgardo, from the Ravenswood clan. But, as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are from feuding families and their love is prohibited. Sir Walter Scott’s novel was inspired by the true story of Janet Dalrymple, who murdered her husband on their wedding night and paid for her crime with her sanity. By setting it to music, Gaetano Donizetti provided romantic Italian opera with one of its emblematic works, noted for Lucia’s “mad scene”, an aria demanding exceptional technique from the performer as well as great dramatic sensitivity. Director Andreï Serban adds the final touch, transcending the crux of the drama in an expression of liberating joy that severs the bonds of a suffocating male‑dominated society.
Lucia di Lammermoor
Production de 1995 - Andrei Serban
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Music
Gaetano Donizetti
(1797 - 1848) -
ConductorAziz Shokhakimov
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Libretto
Salvatore Cammarano
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Director
Andrei Șerban
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Set design and Costume design
William Dudley
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Lighting design
Guido Levi
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Chorus master
Ching-Lien Wu
Cast
Olivieri
Enrico Ashton
Rae
Lucia
Camarena
Edgardo di Ravenswood
Bettinger
Arturo Bucklaw
Palka
Raimondo Bidebent
Pasturaud
Alisa
Huchet
Normanno
Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Lucia di Lammermoor fait l’objet d’une captation produite par l’Opéra national de Paris, avec le soutien de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris, et sera retransmis en direct le 10 mars 2023 sur la plateforme de l’Opéra « L’Opéra chez soi ».