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Tomorrow, Saturday, July 7, at 9:30 p.m., the Puertas de Castilla will host the live broadcast from the Teatro Real of the opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor', by Gaetano Donizetti.
In this way, Murcia joins this national initiative thanks to which you can see the recital on screens installed in squares, parks, museums, theaters, cultural centers, auditoriums and town halls throughout Spain.
The opera will also be broadcast, for everyone, on Facebook Live, Palco Digital and Opera Vision (Opera Europa platform) that same Saturday at the same time.
The acclaimed production of American stage director David Alden, with musical direction by Daniel Oren, features a cast headed by the American soprano of Cuban descent Lisette Oropesa (Lucia), the Mexican tenor Javier Camarena (Edgardo), the baritone Artur Rucinski ( Enrico Ashton), the bass Roberto Tagliavini (Raimondo Bidebent), the tenor Yijie Shi (Lord Arturo Bucklaw), the mezzo-soprano Marina Pinchuk (Alisa) and the baritone Alejandro del Cerro (Normanno).
Together with them, the Choir and Orchestra Titulares del Teatro Real.
Based on Walter Scott's truculent historical novel, The Bride of Lammermoor, which Salvatore Camarano transformed into a libretto, opera is the epitome of romantic melodrama: exacerbated emotions, impossible loves, ancestral conflicts, spectral spaces, duels, betrayals, madness, death ...
Lucia di Lammermoor is a young orphan, unbalanced and dreamer, in love with Edgardo, enemy of the family, hated by her brother, who encourages her to marry a wealthy nobleman to save them from ruin.
For this, with the complicity of the chaplain and the bad arts of his guardian, Lucia makes believe that his lover has betrayed her.
Pushed to sign the marriage certificate, the young woman, broken by the pain and prey of madness, murders her husband on the night of nuptials, alienated in a kind of angelic reverie that culminates with his death and the subsequent suicide of his beloved.
Donizetti composed the music in just one month, influenced by the triumph of I puritani, of his rival Vincenzo Bellini, whose opera also has a thrilling scene of madness and a premonitory tempest.
(In the Teatro Real Javier Camarena was the protagonist of I puritani in 2016 and it is now also in the Donizetti opera, debuting the role of Edgardo).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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