Set in 17th-century Scotland, Lucia di Lammermoor is reminiscent of Shakespearean tragedies, with warring families and star-crossed lovers, much like “Romeo and Juliet,” as well as “Macbeth”-style ...

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Verdi's "Macbeth" and Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" have two things in common: blood and Scotland, where both operas are set. Now fate somehow has brought them together in other intriguing ways.

I still remember how my heart would pound with excitement each week as the latest episode of “Game of Thrones” began unfolding on my TV screen. I had the same feeling Friday night at the Dr. Phillips ...

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Opera is full of mad scenes, but there’s never been one quite like the mad scene in “Lucia di Lammermoor.” Donizetti’s 1835 masterpiece conjures an indelible, infinitely touching portrait of its title ...

Lucia di Lammermoor will open on Saturday, March 15, 2014, and run for a total of six performances through April 6 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. About the opera: Based on an 1819 novel by Sir ...

No opera company should be asked to survive without an occasional dip into the life-giving force of "Lucia di Lammermoor." It is, in many ways, the prototypical opera: the one in which all the jokes ...