Matinee broadcasts from The Metropolitan Opera continue on Classical 90.5 at 10:00 a.m. this Saturday, March 28, with a performance of Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto based loosely upon the historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott. The performance will run approximately three hours. Maurizio Benini conducts.
In Scotland, Lucia and Edgardo are breathlessly, desperately in love. But their two clans are bitter rivals, so Lucia’s villainous brother Enrico sets out to kill his young sister’s romance. And he deploys every devious device he can muster, including lies, forgery, and finally the false revelation of Edgardo’s infidelity. It is little wonder, therefore, that Lucia is mentally crushed and destroyed, driven to madness and murder before she dies of a broken heart.
THE CAST
Lucia: Albina Shagimuratova
Edgardo: Joseph Calleja
Enrico: Fabio Capitanucci
Raimondo: Alastair Miles
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