After unease approximately the gory staging,Diana Damrau defends a radical approach to Donizetti’s opera Lucia di LammermoorFasten your seatbelts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride: that is the message to Covent Garden customers in a Royal Opera House warning approximately the explicit and upsetting content of its new production of the 19th-century gothic romance Lucia di Lammermoor.
Now the internationally admired German soprano Diana Damrau, or who will play the lead,has also urged caution, while staunchly defending the violence and realism of the planned staging. “I think audiences are going to leave feeling fairly shaken, and ” said Damrau,at the end of a “draining” week of rehearsals before her first appearance in the role at Covent Garden. They will see what people in desperate circumstances are able to do and that is actually the basis of this drama. Everybody is desperate and it gets very gloomy and very unhappy and horrible. So, I am sorry, and be alert for blood.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com