Whether it’s Lucia disrobing in her bathroom or the couple’s lovemaking in the motel, intimate moments are projected on an overhead screen along with the surtitles. And if that’s not enough, Lucia and Edgardo, her lover, are followed around by a videographer and her assistant who record their affair with the unceasing eye of reality television. In this LA Opera co-production with the Metropolitan Opera, the seventeenth-century Scottish setting of Lucia di Lammermoor, which is based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel, has been replaced by a kaleidoscopic vision of a present-day, depressed town in America’s rust belt.Ĭrammed on constantly rotating platforms, Lucia’s house, a food mart, a pharmacy, a motel, an ATM machine, a water-treatment plant, a drive-in movie, neon signs and battered cars compete for space. (JRo) Drive-in: Arturo Chacón-Cruz (Edgardo) and Amanda Woodbury (Lucia) © Cory Weaver

United States Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor:Chorus and Orchestra of LA Opera / Lina González-Granados (conductor).

La opera schedule 2016