![]() Set designer Lizzie Clachan, who was making her Met debut along with Stone and most of the team, created a theme-park version of a small town. ![]() The photos and chat displayed above the set promoted surprising laughter from the audience opening night. There’s no doubt most people who live there, not only carry a handgun, but are willing to use it, although knives were just as lethal.Īrturo uses social media to help undermine Lucia’s trust in Edgardo. The going concerns are the pawn shop, liquor store and pharmacy. Enrico is assisted in these efforts by the benevolent, if misguided efforts of Raimondo, the local parish priest.Īn atmosphere of desperation prevails in the seedy side of town where alcohol and drugs numb the pain of existence. Lucia is a pawn in her brother Enrico’s plan to claw his way out of debt by marrying her off to the well-off Arturo. Stone has reset the action from 17th-century Scotland to America’s Rust Belt in the present day,exploring the contemporary resonance of the opera’s themes of violence, misogyny and economic decline. Improbably, Scott based his novel on a true story of a young girl forced into a marriage, who did indeed stab her husband, although not fatally, on their wedding night. He and librettist Salvadore Cammarano whittled down Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 novel, The Bride of Lammermoor, into a taut conflict between the three main protagonists: the innocent Lucia her brother Enrico and the man she loves and her brother’s nemesis, Edgardo. The new production has its faults, but it is undeniably compelling, and diehard traditionalists will have to save their brickbats for another day.ĭonizetti was at the height of his powers when he composed Lucia in just six weeks in 1835. A few people started booing, but they were quickly drowned out by the rest of the audience which had long been on its feet. Photo: Marty SohlĬheers greeted Simon Stone and his creative team Saturday night as they walked onstage to take bows after the debut performance of his updated staging of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera. Nadine Sierra in the title role of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera.
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