07 Feb 2010
Lucia di Lammermoor at the Coliseum
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7016711.ece
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A musical challenge to our view of the past
https://vimeo.com/operarara/how-to-rescue-an-opera
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/opera/article7016711.ece
Geoff Brown [Times Online, 8 February 2010]
So, once more we plunge into that melodramatic cauldron, that brooding nonsense, that is Lucia di Lammermoor. On its first outing in 2008 David Alden’s grimly stylised, psychopathological take on the opera that Donizetti squeezed from a capacious Sir Walter Scott novel gathered assorted praise. This time round, the director’s shock treatment of life in Lucia’s Scottish manse — think Grand Guignol reimagined by Ibsen — shocks and impresses rather less.