Tag Archives: Giacomo Sagripanti

Lucia di Lammermoor, Royal Opera, April 2024

Posted on 21 April 2024

Musically stunning. This was a great performance of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. The orchestra, the singers, the lighting, and the staging by Katie Mitchell with its split stage has been improved beyond measure since its unpopular inception in 2016. See my review in The Article.

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Don Pasquale, Glyndebourne, GFO, July 2017

Posted on 14 July 2017

What a pleasure to see Mariam Clément’s 2013 Festival production revived. On its revolving stage, split into three rooms, we see the charming Dr. Malatesta of Moldovan baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky flitting like a spirit at the start of the performance. Malatesta is the soul of this opera, a Figaro-like character whose deceptions are the essence …

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