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The Daughter of the Regiment

Opera Della Luna has an admirable track record of revitalising old comic operas. Its guiding spirit, Jeff Clarke, has taken Donizetti’s comic masterpi...
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Anna Bolena

The COC wraps up Donizetti’s Tudor trilogy with a new production of Anna Bolena, the tragic bel canto opera based loosely on the life of Anne Boleyn. ...
Lucia di Lammermor © 2017 ROH. Photograph Stephen Cumminskey
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Lucia di Lammermoor

This famous opera regained its place in the repertory thanks to the role it played in the careers of Callas and Sutherland. However, it is has sustain...
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Lucrezia Borgia

Coming off of the theatrical extravaganza of King Lear from the same festival, in which every conceivable conceit, set piece, and lighting trick ...
L’elisir D’amore © ROH Photo Bill Cooper
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L’Elisir D’Amore

L’elisir D’amore, with its highly effective musical contrasts, propelled Donizetti into further international recognition and stardom in 1832, confirm...
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Lucia di Lammermoor

This month the National Opera House in Bucharest presented Andrei Serban’s new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor – an opera inspired by Wa...
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Lucia Di Lammermoor

One name - Maria Jose Moreno – makes almost the full story of this production of Lucia, originally created for the Oviedo Opera House and first perfor...
Pia DeTolomei Buxton Opera House, Derbyshire
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Pia de’Tolomei

English Touring Opera has a fine record of bringing little known Donizetti operas on tour and providing inventive productions with promising young sin...
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Maria Stuarda

Star Power; have you ever had a friend say you must try something unfamiliar because there is a star you absolutely cannot miss? That is the experienc...