Review: Miami Lyric Opera serves up bel canto splendor with Donizetti’s “Lucia”

Operatic bel canto and the passion and treachery of Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor meet in Donizetti’s masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor. Miami Lyric Opera’s new production on Saturday night at the Moss Cultural Arts Center in Cutler Bay does justice to this mixture of inspired melodies and Scottish tragedy. With a cast of gifted singers, a star performance in the title role and theatrically informed staging, this Lucia is one of the company’s best offerings in its two-decade history.

The tale of rival Scottish clans and a heroine forced into an arranged marriage by her evil brother (for his political advantage), leading to madness and murder, is the stuff of operatic melodramas in excelsis. Director Raffaele Cardone fielded a strong cast that was up to Donizetti’s considerable vocal demands…

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