Name: Boris Godunov
Start: 2016-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2016-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Royal Albert Hall

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Baritone

Bass-baritone

Bryn Terfel

Boris Godunov

Mezzo-soprano

Benjamin Knight

Fyodor

Soprano

Vlada Borovko

Kseniya

Tenor

John Graham-Hall

Prince Vasiliy Ivanovich Shuysky

Kostas Smoriginas

Andrey Shchelkalov

Bass

Ain Anger

Pimen

David Butt Philip

Grigoriy

Andrii Goniukov

Varlaam

Harry Nicoll

Misail

Rebecca de Pont Davies

The innkeeper

Andrew Tortise

Conductor

Conductor (+1)

Antonio Pappano

Royal Ballet and Opera

Royal Albert Hall

London

United Kingdom

Opera

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Director Katie Mitchell and designer Vicki Mortimer speak about their new Royal Opera production of Lucia di Lammermoor. Find out more at www.roh.org.uk/lucia

Lucia di Lammermoor is Donizetti's tragic masterpiece. The opera marked the beginning of his partnership with regular collaborator librettist Salvadore Cammarano – who, as was the fashion of the day, looked to Walter Scott. Cammarano’s adaptation of Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor moved Donizetti greatly, and in the subsequent score he produced not only some of his most beautiful but also his most dramatically potent music. Within a few years of its premiere in Naples on 26 September 1835 Lucia had entered the international repertory. Here it has remained, despite a practice in the 19th and 20th centuries to make cuts that obscured Donizetti’s deft handling of his ensemble cast, with a consequent impact on the opera’s brilliant dramatic pacing.

Lucia’s ‘Mad Scene’ is the opera’s most famous moment – but it is Donizetti’s recollection of previous motifs, such as Lucia’s Act I aria ‘Regnava nel silenzio’ and her duet with Edgardo ‘Verranno a te sull’aure’ that poignantly make manifest her distracted mind. Other highlights include the acclaimed sextet ‘Chi mi frena in tal momento’, where Edgardo interrupts the wedding party, the furious duet between Enrico and Edgardo at the start of Act III and the opera’s closing Tomb Scene, with its heartfelt and sombre depiction of Edgardo’s loss. Director Katie Mitchell (Written on Skin) sets The Royal Opera’s new production in the 1840s and focusses on how an intelligent woman, failed by the men in her life, experiences a horrifying mental breakdown.

Katie Mitchell on Lucia di Lammermoor - 'My focus is 100% on the female characters'

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