Lucia di Lammermoor: Bayerische Staatsoper

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Hear Donizetti's beautiful opera in Munich: a tale of insanity and revenge.

“When great emotions cannot be truthfully expressed, they explode with the power of an atom bomb” (Barbara Wysocka). Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor — the Romeo and Juliet of the Scottish Highlands so to speak — is far from being a private tragic love story. Rather, it is above all a political tale, which shows how a totalitarian system distorts human relationships at their very core and finally consumes them. The development and extinguishing of unrequited love has provided Donizetti with his most haunting music. Revenge is bloody; madness deadly. And the agony of emotions — according to the Director — “destroys everything and everyone.”

In Italian with German surtitles

Conductor: Kirill Petrenko (Feb), Stefano Ranzani (Jul)
Director: Barbara Wysocka
Set design: Barbara Hanicka
Costume design: Julia Kornacka
Video: Andergrand Media + Spektakle
Lighting: Rainer Casper
Dramaturgy: Daniel Menne, Malte Krasting
Chorusmaster: Stellario Fagone

Lord Enrico Ashton: Levente Molnár
Lucia Ashton: Diana Damrau
Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood: Pavol Breslik
Lord Arturo Buckla: Emanuele D'Aguanno
Raimondo Bidebent: Georg Zeppenfeld (Feb), Alexander Tsymbalyuk (Jul)
Alisa: Rachael Wilson
Normanno: Dean Power

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