The Metropolitan Opera Donizetti Lucia di Lammermoor (2009)

Star soprano Anna Netrebko adds Donizettis hapless heroine to her growing list of Met triumphs in this production by Mary Zimmerman that updates the events to the 19th century Rising young tenor sensation Piotr Beczała is Edgardo and Mariusz Kwiecien plays Lucias brother Enrico whose brutal authority forces her to deny her heart and marry for the sake of her family The famous mad scene brilliantly depicts the cascading fragments of Lucias disintegrating mind