Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor

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 Shakespeares 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 Africas Pretty Yende a rising star of the opera stage in this production by Andrei Serban conducted by Riccardo Frizza