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Tag Archives: Donizetti

Bad boys go head to head: Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Grimeborn

Lucia di Lammermoor is an opera of shocking brutality, with savage emotional aggression rivalling physical violence throughout its fast-paced plot. Fulham Opera’s reduction for Grimeborn brings Donizetti’s dark, doomed characters…

August 10, 2018 in Opera.

Something old, something new: Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei, English Touring Opera

Pia de’ Tolomei premiered in Venice in February 1837 and, unbelievably, reached London in March 2016 – last week – a mere 179 years later. With laudable courage, English Touring…

March 14, 2016 in Bel canto, Opera.

Gradually going flat: Lucia di Lammermoor at Buxton Opera Festival

Among the great mad scenes available to an operatic soprano, Lucia di Lammermoor is a classic. The parade of blood-stained divas staggering across stages to Donizetti’s eerie, twirling melody includes…

July 15, 2015 in Opera.

Save room for seconds: I pazzi per progetto & The Dancing Master

In this double bill, we get a violently enthusiastic little farce from Donizetti which, though fiery, is definitely not his best work; but next, we are treated to the revival…

March 4, 2015 in Opera.

Highway to heaven: Opera Della Luna and their Hell’s Angel La Fille du régiment

Jeff Clarke’s marvellous retelling of La Fille du régiment updates Donizetti’s original setting (the Swiss Tyrol in the early 19th century) to the hot, dusty Californian desert of the 1950s,…

July 9, 2014 in Opera.

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