Dessay's Lucia di Lammermoor Delights in San Francisco.
Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” is one of the great star turns in the operatic repertory, yet at the same time it is a quintessential ensemble opera, whose sextet is perhaps the most famous opportunity in all of opera for the lead soprano, tenor, baritone and bass to join voices in a single number (sharing the. Read more Dessay’s Lucia di Lammermoor Delights in San Francisco.Lucia has been performed in 23 previous seasons at San Francisco Opera and to celebrate its return, here is a photo journal of the many distinguished artists who have performed the title role. Some of these photographs are from one of the most horrific and haunting scenes in the operatic repertoire, when Lucia goes mad at the end of Act II.Opera Online, the opera lovers' web site. the 05 of June, 2013. the 11 of June, 2013. the 14 of June, 2013. the 20 of June, 2013.
NATALIE DESSAY'S classical career appeared to be headed for an untimely end, but she has reinvented herself as what we used to call a middle-of-the-road pop singer.Always a shrewd and canny performer, she has done this in a way that invites no derision and does not evoke the winces so often produced when an opera singer tries to tackle pop music.Just a quickie from the openimg night of Lucia di Lammermoor at the San Francisco Opera, where after a wobbly start Natalie Dessay stormed through the title role, every note in place, with exquisite poise and total control. If she (surprisingly) wasn't 100% convincing dramatically, that was down to the production, curiously static, rather undirected, set entirely on a heather carpeted.
Natalie Dessay, the soprano, descended a staircase into the rehearsal room at the Metropolitan Opera with the poise of a countess entering a ballroom, dressed in skinny black pants, high heels.
