Lucie de Lammermoor

In a destitute Scotland, torn by clan rivalries, Lucie must marry a Lord who would save her family’s name from disgrace. But a secret love unites her with Edgard, the last survivor of a rival lineage... What can a woman do when strength and violence reign supreme? 

The most widely read author in 19th-century Europe, Walter Scott, drew inspiration from a real event for his darkest novel. At the height of his career, Donizetti created a remarkable theatrical adaptation of it. After a triumph in Naples, Lucia di Lammermoor took over the stages of the continent, as Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina will testify. We are presenting the French version that Donizetti supervised for Paris, when it was the lyrical capital of the continent. 

Speranza Scappucci conducts this pinnacle of Romantic lyricism. After her legendary Lakmé and Ophelia performances, Sabine Devieilhe returns to the Opéra-Comique for a new role, one she will embody perfectly, as virtuosic as she is sensitive. The director Evgeny Titov lays bare the cruel mechanisms of this unforgiving drama. 

French adaptation in four acts of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor | Translation by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz of the original libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on the novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott | Premiered on 6th August 1839 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance, Paris.