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Lucia di Lammermoor State Opera Vienna - Wien Sun 16.Nov 2025 replace me !Lucia di Lammermoor State Opera Vienna - Wien Wed 19.Nov 2025 replace me !Lucia di Lammermoor State Opera Vienna - Wien Sat 22.Nov 2025 replace me !Lucia di Lammermoor State Opera Vienna - Wien Tue 25.Nov 2025 replace me !As he wants to secure his political position, Lord Enrico wants to marry his sister Lucia to the influential Lord Arturo. But Lucia is madly in love with Enrico's mortal enemy - Sir Edgardo, who falls in love with her again.
Enrico then takes advantage of Edgardo's prolonged absence to successfully undermine the marriage he has rejected and make Lucia agree to accept Arturo, whom she does not want. When Edgardo unexpectedly bursts into the middle of Lucia and Arturo's wedding celebrations and accuses Lucia of infidelity, she finally breaks down inside: In a fit of madness, she kills Arturo on their wedding night and dies herself shortly afterwards. When Edgardo learns of her death, he stabs himself.
Lucia di Lammermoor is considered a key work of Italian Romantic opera, in which, unlike the corresponding German and French examples written at the same time, the supernatural events are shifted into the inner world of the human being. The ghostly haunting mutates into mental illness, the traumatic experiences intensify into psychosis. And so, in Lucia di Lammermoor, it is no coincidence that the title character's mad aria, which is both incredibly challenging and effective for the singer, is at the center of the opera's musical dramaturgy. The work also thrives on melodic richness, a musical-psychological development of the characters and atmospheric mood painting. At the same time, Donizetti and his librettist Cammarano skillfully softened the prescribed formal scheme of bel canto opera and even anticipated the gestural scenic language of Giuseppe Verdi.Gaetano Donizetti and librettist Salvadore Cammarano created the three-act Lucia di Lammermoor in their first collaboration within just a few weeks as the culmination of an entire series of settings of Sir Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor . As the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, which was scheduled to stage the premiere, had suffered a financial disaster, the premiere date was delayed by several months until the work was launched with great success and began its triumphal march around the world.
At the Vienna State Opera, Lucia di Lammermoor was included in the repertoire shortly after the opening of the opera house in 1870 and here, too, it became a showpiece for the great prima donnas. For example, the only appearances of the legendary Maria Callas at the Vienna State Opera are linked to this work - she sang the title role in a guest performance by La Scala Milan at the Haus am Ring in 1956. And Edita Gruberova also wrote Viennese (and therefore international) performance history as Lucia from 1978.
(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
