Nadine Sierra (coloratura soprano, Lucia) Javier Camarena (tenor, Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood) Artur Ruciński (baritone, Lord Enrico Ashton) Christian Van Horn (bass, Raimondo Bidebent) Alok Kumar (tenor, Normanno, a huntsman) Deborah Nansteel (mezzo-soprano, Alisa, Lucia's handmaid) Eric Ferring (tenor, Lord Arturo Bucklaw) Friedrich Heinrich Kern (glass harmonica) Mariko Anraku (harp) Metropolitan Opera Chorus Donald Palumbo (chorus director) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Riccardo Frizza (conductor) Find out more Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, tragic opera in three acts, based on Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor Artists
Live concert recording courtesy of Euroradio. World premiere: Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1835. Show-stopping tenor Javier Camarena adds to the bel canto fireworks as Lucia’s beloved, Edgardo, with baritone Artur Ruciński as her overbearing brother, Enrico, and bass-baritone Christian Van Horn as her tutor, Raimondo Now, she takes on one of the repertory’s most formidable and storied roles, the haunted heroine of Lucia di Lammermoor, in an electrifying new staging by in-demand Australian theatre and film director Simon Stone, conducted by Riccardo Frizza. In recent seasons, soprano Nadine Sierra has brought down the house at the Met with virtuosic vocalism and captivating stage presence as Gilda in Rigoletto, Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, and Ilia in Idomeneo. The ivy-covered ruins of deserted Baldoon Castle, the historic castle which was owned by the Dunbars of Westfield from 1533 to about 1800 can still be visited and it’s said by some that you can still feel a heaviness of heart as you walk onto the castle grounds and that the ghost of Janet Dalrymple Dunbar haunts the ruin, in a bloodied wedding dress. Archibald, Janet’s true love, never married and died in 1685. In time, he married a daughter of the seventh Earl of Eglinton and eventually died after falling from his horse in 1682. Legend says of the September 12th, 1669 attack that David Dunbar recovered from his injuries but would never talk about the events of the dreadful night. The real-life Lord Arturo, David Dunbar, survived the stabbing, but Janet did not. Just like Lucy in the novel, Janet was forced to marry a different suitor and overcome with stress, subsequently stabbed him on her wedding night. A case of art imitating life, the heroine of the novel, Lucy, is based on Janet Dalrymple, the daughter of the 1st Viscount of Stair who secretly got engaged to a political enemy of her family. The tragic opera in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti for which Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto is loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor, one of his best-known novels from his Tales of my Landlord series.
The insanity that overtakes and destroys Lucia, depicted in opera’s most celebrated mad scene, became inexorably linked to Dame Joan Sutherland as one of her show-stopping-arias.
The character of Lucia has become an icon in opera and beyond, an archetype of the constrained woman asserting herself in society.ĭonizetti’s handling of this fragile woman’s state of mind remains seductively beautiful, thoroughly compelling, and deeply disturbing.
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