LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR

Composer Gaetano Donizetti. Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano based on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Walter Scott.
Opera in three acts (1835)

recommended for ages 14 and up

In Italian language. With surtitles in German and English.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

"When great emotions cannot be expressed honestly, they explode with the force of an atomic bomb" (Barbara Wysocka). Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor - Romeo and Juliet in the Scottish Lowlands, so to speak - is by no means a private love tragedy, but an eminently political story that demonstrates how a system of power deforms and ultimately corrodes human relationships to the core. Donizetti has lent his most haunting music to the rebellion and extinction of betrayed love: The revenge is bloody, the madness deadly. And the abused feelings - says the director - "destroy everything and everyone".