Soprano Ashley Milanese is joining an extensive legacy of singers as she prepares for opening night of the Sarasota Opera’s new production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” It’s about a ...

Soprano Brenda Rae stars as the opera’s titular character, and will perform the famous “Lucia’s mad scene.” Credit: Ken Howard Things are about to get downright bloody at the Tobin Center. Opera San ...

Donizetti had finally reached the heights he had clamored for. The great Rossini had resigned, living the high life in Paris, and Bellini had recently died. That left Donizetti. After Lucia, more ...

The English Civil War provides obstacles to Bellini’s lovers, but instead of amping up the drama, the additional history ...

The mad scene from Lucia di Lammermoor is rightfully famous (and often parodied). In it, the soprano must wander about the stage for a full 15 minutes with a bloody knife, having just killed her ...

“Agency” is the necessary word that always comes up with “Lucia di Lammermoor,” which opened Los Angeles Opera’s new season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Saturday night. This time in a startling ...

Feel the wind on the wing of madness. A soprano – solo in the spotlight – vocally and emotionally crumbles into madness before your eyes. Favoured by the likes of Bellini, Verdi and Donizetti, ‘mad ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — An opera it was not, but in the world premiere of “mad scramble for crumbs,” Opera Saratoga presented a surrealist work of vocal art worth seeing, not only because it is ...