2025 OPERA SEASON
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR
Gaetano Donizetti
Opera in three acts
Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
Impossible love, family feuds, enforced nuptials. And deception, betrayed trust, a bloody ghost, murder, madness and suicide. By 1835, when Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor, the theme of Romeo and Juliet was firmly established at the opera, akin to the feelings of the new generation against families controlling wealth through marriage. The subject taken from Walter Scott has gothic colors, but it is not only the suggestion of Scottish castles that guarantees success, and the French version (1839) elicits an unbearable identification in Emma Bovary: madness is the only escape in a labyrinth of oppressions. Lucia’s delirium is still emblematic of the desire for freedom and self-dermination, whether the voice duets with the ghostly glassharmonica willed by Donizetti (and said to drive those who played it mad with its vibrations) or with the flute that came into use as the cadenza that supplanted in tradition the original space for sopranos’ imagination.
Director
Directing
DIRECTOR
Daniel Oren
DIRECTOR
Jacopo Spirei
New Production of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
with Fondazione Teatro Donizetti di Bergamo
Orchestra, Chorus and Technicians of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
In collaboration for stage actions with the Bologna School of Theatre Alessandra Galante Garrone
CHOIR MASTER
Gea Garatti Ansini
Main Characters and Performers
SIR EDGARD OF RAVENSWOOD
Iván Ayón Rivas
SIR EDGARD OF RAVENSWOOD
LORD ARTURO BUCKLAW
Vincenzo Peroni
LORD ENRICO ASHTON
Lucas Meachem 20 | 22 | 25 FEB
Masim Lisiin 21 | 23 FEB
LUCIA
Jessica Pratt 20 | 22 | 25 FEB
Gilda Fiume 21 | 23 FEB
SIR EDGARD OF RAVENWOOD
Iván Ayón Rivas
Matthew Desole
LORD ARTURO BUCKLAW
Vincenzo Peroni
RAIMONDO BIDEBEND
Marko Mimica 20 | 22 | 25 FEB
Francesco Leoni 21 | 23 FEB
ALISA
Miriam Artiaco
NORMANN
Marco Miglietta
SCENE
Federica Parolini
COSTUMES
Silvia Aymonino
LUCI
Alessandro Verazzi
SCENE
Mauro Tinti
COSTUMES
Agnese Rabatti
LUCI
Giuseppe Di Iorio
Author
Gaetano Donizetti
(1797-1848) was an Italian opera composer, famous for writing more than 70 operas. Among his most famous works are “L’elisir d’amore,” a romantic comedy; “Lucia di Lammermoor,” a tragic drama based on Walter Scott’s novel; “Don Pasquale,” a brilliant opera buffa; and “La favorita,” known for its touching arias. His operas are celebrated for the beauty of the melodies and his ability to combine comic and dramatic elements. Donizetti played a key role in the development of bel canto and profoundly influenced Romantic opera, leaving a lasting imprint on the European musical landscape.
February 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 25
MUNICIPAL NOUVEAU
(Constitution Square, 4)
Presenting Partner
The maiden of the west
FROM 24TH TO 30 JAN
Municipal Nouveau
A Masquerade Ball
13TH TO 19TH APR
Municipal Nouveau
Der ring des Nibelungen | Gotterdammerung
24 AND 26 OCT
Manzoni Auditorium
The Barber of Seville
DEC 19TH TO DEC 30th
Municipal Nouveau
Candide
4TH TO 8TH JUL
Municipal Nouveau
So do they all
FROM MAY 25 TO JUNE 1
Municipal Nouveau
Oedipus Rex
7TH TO 12TH OCT
Municipal Nouveau
FROM 24TH TO 30 JAN
Municipal Nouveau
13TH TO 19TH APR
Municipal Nouveau
FEB 20-25
Municipal Nouveau
24 AND 26 OCT
Manzoni Auditorium
13 AND 15 JUN
Manzoni Auditorium.
FROM NOV 23TH TO NOV 30th
Municipal Nouveau
DEC 19TH TO DEC 30th
Municipal Nouveau
4TH TO 8TH JUL
Municipal Nouveau
FROM MAY 25 TO JUNE 1
Municipal Nouveau
7TH TO 12TH OCT
Municipal Nouveau
This post is also available in: Italiano (Italian)