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Anna Netrebko (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Anna Netrebko 's first performance after giving birth to her first child will be at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg singing the title role of Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor. Two performances on 14. and 17. January 2009 have been scheduled on her brand new redesigned website, prior to her role debut as Lucia at the MET on 26. January 2009.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 20/07/2008
Hugh Canning [Times Online, 20 July 2008] Almost 30 years have passed since the enchanting Derbyshire spa town of Buxton first hosted an opera festival. It opened modestly in 1979 with Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, but the following year it raised the stakes exponentially with Ambroise Thomas’s Hamlet, starring Thomas Allen in the title role, and Berlioz’s Beatrice and Benedict, in which Ann Murray...
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The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008
I had a music professor who used to like to say, "There are those who like music and those who like opera." It should be clear from many of my past posts that I disagree with him. Yesterday, however, after seeing the San Francisco Opera production of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (having seen the opera itself only once before on a Metropolitan Opera telecast), I have to wonder if my professor...
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008
San Francisco Opera's free Friday night simulcast of Gaetano Donizetti's tragic warhorse "Lucia di Lammermoor" drew about 23,000 people to AT&T Park, according to Opera estimates....
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
San Francisco Opera's free Friday night simulcast of Gaetano Donizetti's tragic warhorse "Lucia di Lammermoor" drew about 23,000 people to AT&T Park, according to Opera estimates. It was the second time the company simulcast a production from the the War...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
They call it "Summer Madness." OK, it's just an advertising slogan that loosely ties together the three works currently in repertory for the San Francisco Opera's June season. But the title character of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" offers more than enough insanity to go around, especially as portrayed by the dynamic French soprano Natalie Dessay.
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WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 22/06/2008
They call it “Summer Madness.” OK, it’s just an advertising slogan that loosely ties together the three works currently in repertory for the San Francisco Opera’s June season. But the title character of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” offers more than enough insanity to go around, especially as portrayed by the dynamic French soprano Natalie [...]
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 18/06/2008
Even in opera, madness can take other forms besides extravagant, unhinged flailing. The title character in the powerful account of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" that opened Tuesday night at the San Francisco Opera takes leave of her senses by retreating...
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The Stage (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
Coliseum, London: ENO's former music director Paul Daniel returns to conduct David Alden's first-ever production of Donizetti's tragic masterpiece. Read the full review
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 24/02/2008
Once seen as the epitome of Romantic sensibility, Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor has long been a vocal freak-show. Be she sturdy or skinny, a subtle actress or a ham, the soprano in the title role will know that every ear in the house will be tuned to her mad scene, as will the tenor that plays her lover and the baritone that plays her brother. Titillated by the vertiginous tessitura and delirious...
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
ENO doesn't really go in for bel canto opera. Other than a Maria Stuarda back in the mid 1990s, the only Donizetti opera in the company's repertoire in the recent past has been the popular L'elisir d'amore.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
English National Opera singer Clive Bayley was midway through the first act of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" when he started losing his voice.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 19/02/2008
In the middle of the first act of a packed English National Opera performance of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” on Saturday, a chest infection claimed the voice of the bass Clive Bayley, who was singing the leading role of Raimondo, Lucia’s tutor. Could the show be saved? Yes indeed, Reuters reported. Out from the audience came Paul Whelan, 38, who just happened to have been studying the role and...
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Daily Mail online | Home (Free subscription) | 18/02/2008
A member of a West End opera audience received a huge ovation when he stepped in to sing the lead role after the star lost his voice. Paul Whelan, 38, rescued the production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the English National Opera when bass Clive Bayley suffered a chest infection
