A Grand Opening at the Opera
"Lucia di Lammermoor": The Metropolitan Opera opened the 2007-8 season with this production, which stars the soprano Natalie Dessay in the title role of the tragic, maddened heroine.
The soprano Natalie Dessay must thrive under pressure. Singing the touchstone title role of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” in a new production to open the Metropolitan Opera’s season on Monday night would have been enough to contend with. But Peter Gelb, the Met’s general manager, believes in presenting opera as a total theatrical package, which includes, when he has the right star in the right show, a promotional campaign that a Broadway mogul like Rocco Landesman would envy. For weeks Ms. Dessay’s picture has been posted, it has seemed, on half the subway stops and buses in New York.
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