If you’ve noticed people stumbling out of the Kennedy Center lately looking dazed, ashen or plain loopy, you’ll know they’ve just attended Washington National Opera’s boldly off-beat production of ...

Experience a tale of forbidden love set against the backdrop of the Scottish Highlands with Opera in the Heights' season-opening production of Lucia di Lammermoor. This timeless opera, known for its ...

In 1908, the superstar tenor Enrico Caruso and five colleagues made a recording that became an instant legend — both for the quality of its musical artistry, and for its exorbitant price. Fittingly, ...

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 ...

Sign up for The Morning Report with all your must-read news for the day. Wednesday, February 15, 2006 | Opera is full of desperate heroines. If they had lived in ...

The flood of emotions is packed into a score that is consistently tuneful and psychologically apt, especially when Lucia -- sung, in an ideal world, by a nimble and aptly addled coloratura soprano -- ...

Lucia di Lammermoor is scheduled in Lyric Opera’s fall season between two massive new productions: the steampunk spectacle of Das Rheingold (which you can still catch on Saturday), and Les Troyens, ...

A perfect performance by American soprano Nadine Sierra leading an excellent cast in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House in London. An intelligent revival by Robin Tebbutt removes ...