lucia di lammermor

DONZETTI/CAMARANO, ADAPTATION L. PROSKE

HEARTBEAT OPERA

2016

Our protagonist in her hospital bed

A scene with Raimondo and Enrico

Our protagonist crosses the curtain and revels in the landscape

Lucia in the dirt

Edgardo and Lucia

Raimondo convinces Lucia she must agree to the marriage

The confrontation at the wedding

The mad scene

the mad scene

Edgardo laments over Lucia

Directed by Louisa Proske

Music Direction/Arrangement: Dan Schlosberg

Choreography: Chloe Treat

Set Design: Reid Thompson

Costume Design: Beth Goldenberg

Lighting Design: Oliver Wason

Photographs: Tyler First, Russ Rowland

Cast: David Guzman (Edgardo), Christopher S. Lilley (Arturo/Normanno), Jamilyn Manning-White (Lucia), Matthew Singer (Enrico), Monica Soto-Gil (Alisa), John Taylor Ward (Raimondo)

Inspired by the famous mad scene in Donizetti’s Lucia Di Lammermoor, Director Louisa Proske concieved of this production as the fever dream of a patient in a mental institution, hearing the opera on a radio in her room. Performing at the Theater of St Clemens, in a converted church, We bisected the playing space diagonally with a sheer curtain. The small orchestra was on the front of the curtain, surrounded by a landscape of dirt, filled with mysterious half-buried silver objects and furniture, used to play the scenes. Behind the curtain was a representation of our protagonists hospital room. At a pivotal moment - the beginning of the mad scene - Lucia ecstatically pulled the sheer curtain back, mixing the world of the mental hospital and the imagined world of the opera. Soprano Jamilyn Manning-White was a powerhouse as the title character, enthusiastically thowing herself into the role.