Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

"Gaetano Donizetti's opera seria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on October 14th, 2016"

2016 2h 10m IT

Drama

Synopsis

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Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with whom she is in love. However, just as in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, the lovers are the progeny of two feuding families and do not have the right to love each other. Lucia, a magnificent flower shattered by the violence of a society of men, is embodied by South Africa’s Pretty Yende, a rising star of the opera stage, in this production by Andrei Serban, conducted by Riccardo Frizza.

“Gaetano Donizetti's opera seria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on October 14th, 2016”

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Cast

Pretty Yende
Lucia
Piero Pretti
Edgardo di Ravenswood
Oleksiy Palchykov
Arturo Bucklaw
Rafal Siwek
Raimondo Bidebent
Riccardo Frizza
Conductor

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Andrei Serban
Writers: Salvadore Cammarano, Walter Scott
Languages: Italian
Countries: France

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ERA

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Released 10 years ago.

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CRAFT

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Gaetano Donizetti. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Pretty Yende and Piero Pretti and Oleksiy Palchykov carry the top of the cast.

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ERA

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Marketing tagline: "Gaetano Donizetti's opera seria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on October 14th, 2016".

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The take

Andrei Serban directs. Gaetano Donizetti scores. Produced in France. Dialogue in Italian.

Trivia

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1Released 10 years ago.
2Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
3Original score by Gaetano Donizetti. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Pretty Yende and Piero Pretti and Oleksiy Palchykov carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Gaetano Donizetti's opera seria live at the Opéra Bastille, Paris on October 14th, 2016".