Lucia di Lammermoor Is Met's May 21, 2022, Saturday Matinee Broadcast

Summary: Lucia di Lammermoor is Met's May 21, 2022, Saturday matinee broadcast, airing as 21st of the 2021-2022 season's 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts.

The 2021-2022 Met Opera season's new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor reunites Nadine Sierra and Javier Camarena, who portrayed the doomed Scottish lovers, reset in the United States in the 1950s, in six performances in July 2021 at the Liceu in Barcelona, Catalunya, northeastern Spain; photo credit Antoni Bofill/Gran Teatre del Liceu: diariARA @diariARA, via Twitter July 15, 2021

Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor is the Met's May 21, 2022, Saturday matinee broadcast, scheduled as the 21st of the 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts in the 2021-2022 season.

Lucia di Lammermoor by Italian opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848) receives nine performances in the 2021-2022 season. The first through seventh performances were held Saturday, April 23, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time; Tuesday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, April 29, at 7:30 p.m.; Monday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m.; Friday, May 6, at 8:00 p.m.; Tuesday, May 10, at 8:00 p.m.; and Saturday, May 14, at 1:00 p.m. The eighth through ninth, closing performances are scheduled for Tuesday, May 17, at 7:00 p.m., and Saturday, May 21, at 1:00 p.m.

The 2021-2022 season debuts a new production of Lucia di Lammermoor by Simon Stone. The new production's debut Saturday, April 23, 2022, marked the Swiss-born, Australian theater and film director's Met Opera debut.

Riccardo Frizza conducts the new production. The Italian conductor, an expert in the Italian operatic repertoire, had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Jan. 24, 2009, in the opera company's 816th performance of Rigoletto by Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901).

Nadine Sierra sings the title role of Lucia, whose forced marriage by her brother, Enrico, to Lord Arturo drives her to madness and murder. The American soprano had made her Met Opera debut Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2015, as Gilda in the opera company’s 874th performance of Verdi's Rigoletto.

Javier Camarena sings Edgardo, who has made a vow of devotion to Lucia despite the enmity between their families. The Mexican operatic tenor had made his Met Opera debut Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011, as Count Almaviva in the opera company’s 587th performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868).

Artur Ruciński sings Enrico, Lucia's brother, who requires his sister's marriage to Lord Arturo for financial security. The Polish baritone had made his Met Opera debut Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, as Sharpless in the opera company’s 857th performance of Madama Butterfly by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924).

Matthew Rose sings chaplain Raimondo, Lucia's tutor, who tries to intervene for Lucia's well-being but has the grim duty of announcing her madness, her murder of her just-wedded husband and her death. The English operatic bass made his Metropolitan Opera debut Friday, Nov. 18, 2011, as Colline in the opera company’s 1,240th performance of Puccini’s La Bohème.

The production team for Simon Stone's new staging of the 2021-2022 season's Lucia di Lammermoor comprises Lizzie Clachan as set designer; Alice Babidge, costume designer; James Farncombe, lighting designer; and Luke Halls, projection designer. British theatre designer Lizzie Clachan, Australian costume designer Alice Babidge and British lighting designer James Farncombe all made their Met Opera debuts in the new production's debut, Saturday, April 23, 2022. British projection designer Luke Halls had made his Met Opera debut Monday, Sep. 21, 2015, in American theater director Bartlett Sher's new production of Verdi's Otello. Sher's new Otello production debuted in the opera company's 326th performance of the opera.

The 2021-2022 season's first performance of Lucia di Lammermoor numbered as Met Opera's 612th performance of the opera. The Metropolitan Opera premiere of Lucia di Lammermoor had taken place Wednesday, Oct. 24, 1883. Donizetti's Scottish-styled Romeo and Juliette tragic opera was staged as the second of 20 operas offered during the Metropolitan Opera's inaugural season, 1883-1884. Lucia di Lammermoor received 10 performances in the 1883-1883 season.

Simon Stone's new production replaces the staging that Mary Zimmerman debuted Monday, Sep. 24, 2007, in the opera company's 558th performance of Lucia di Lammermoor. The debut of her Lucia di Lammermoor production had marked the Met Opera debut as well for the American theater and opera director and playwright. Mary Zimmerman's production experienced four revivals (2008-2009, 2010-2011, 2014-2015, 2017-2018).

The takeaways for Lucia di Lammermoor as the Met's May 21, 2022, Saturday matinee broadcast are that Donizetti's love-maddened opera airs as the 21st of the 2021-2022 season's 24 Saturday matinee opera broadcasts; that the opera debuts as a new production, directed by Australian theater and film director Simon Stone; that the May 21 Saturday matinee opera broadcast closes the opera's run of nine performances in the 2021-2022 season; and that Nadine Sierra, Javier Camarena, Artur Ruciński and Matthew Rose add Lucia di Lammermoor to their Met Opera portfolios with their portrayals in the new production.

Swiss-born Australian theater and film director Simon Stone makes his Met Opera debut in the 2021-2022 season with his new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor; Simon Stone's receipt of the prestigious Nestroy Theatre Award in 2015 for his adaptation of 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, Ronacher, Vienna, Austria; photo taken Nov. 2, 2015, by Manfred Werner (Tsu): Manfred Werner -- Tsu, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

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The 2021-2022 Met Opera season's new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor reunites Nadine Sierra and Javier Camarena, who portrayed the doomed Scottish lovers, reset in the United States in the 1950s, in six performances in July 2021 at the Liceu in Barcelona, Catalunya, northeastern Spain; photo credit Antoni Bofill/Gran Teatre del Liceu: diariARA @diariARA, via Twitter July 15, 2021, @ https://twitter.com/diariARA/status/1415566154085634050

Swiss-born Australian theater and film director Simon Stone makes his Met Opera debut in the 2021-2022 season with his new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor; Simon Stone's receipt of the prestigious Nestroy Theatre Award in 2015 for his adaptation of 19th-century Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman, Ronacher, Vienna, Austria; photo taken Nov. 2, 2015, by Manfred Werner (Tsu): Manfred Werner -- Tsu, CC BY SA 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Simon_Stone_Nestroy-Theaterpreis_2015.jpg

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