Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

In Laurent Pelly’s dream-like staging of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, a top vocal cast shines at the Wiener Staatsoper.

In Laurent Pelly’s dream-like staging of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, one of the most important bel canto works of all time, a top vocal cast shines at the Wiener Staatsoper.

When the phenomenal Olga Peretyatko shows the gripping downfall of Lucia, “music and theatre merge into an explosive mixture” (Wiener Zeitung). Juan Diego Flórez, the bel canto superstar, is “probably the world’s best Edgardo” (Kronenzeitung). George Petean joins them as Enrico in the emotional triangle of love, hate and passion. With Evelino Pidò on the rostrum, the orchestra of the Wiener Staatsoper excels under this “ideal master of bel canto music” (Die Presse).

Original title Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Genre Opera
Recording location Wiener Staatsoper, February 2019
Duration approx. 140 mins
Production Company ORF and UNITEL in co-production with NHK in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper
Composer Gaetano Donizetti
Orchestra / Band Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Conductor Evelino Pidò
Choir Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
Chorus Master Martin Schebesta
Stage Director Laurent Pelly
Soloist Olga Peretyatko, Juan Diego Flórez, George Petean, Jongmin Park