Caught in the crossfire of a murderous clan feud, Lucie is in love with the one man her brother hates most. She's deceived, she's used, she's forced to marry. It's enough to make a girl sing the famous mad scene. This season, we offer Donizetti's rarely performed French version, a gem in the coloratura repertory.

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Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Original libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, after the novel by Sir Walter Scott
French libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz (1839)

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Sung in French with projected English surtitles
Co-production with Glimmerglass Opera

Conductor		Emmanuel Plasson*
Stage Director		Lillian Groag*
Associate Stage Director		Mark Streshinsky*
Set Designer		John Conklin
Costume Designer		Catherine Zuber
Lighting Designer		Christopher Akerlind
Lucie Ashton		Tracy Dahl, soprano
Edgard Ravenswood, Laird of Ravenswood		Yasu Nakajima, tenor*
Henri Ashton, Laird of Lammermoor, Lucie’s brother		Gaetan Laperriere, baritone
Raymond, a Calvinist chaplain		David M. Cushing, bass
Gilbert, a retainer of Henri		Alan Schneider, tenor
Arthur Bucklaw, Lucie’s bridegroom		Joshua Kohl, tenor
*BLO debut

Performances:

Friday, November 4, 2005 at 7:30pm
Sunday, November 6, 2005 at 3:00pm
Wednesday, November 9, 2005 at 7:30pm
Friday, November 11 at 2005, 7:30pm
Sunday, November 13 at 2005, 3:00pm
Tuesday, November 15 at 2005 at 7:30pm

All performances at The Shubert Theatre, Boston
The approximate running time of Lucie de Lammermoor
is 2 hours and 40 minutes