Lucia di Lammermoor

Diana Damraus reputation as the worlds leading coloratura soprano has been built on her extraordinary technical virtuosity her sensitive musicianship and her acute psychological insight In this DVD of Katie Mitchells sometimes radical production of Lucia di Lammermoor from Londons Royal Opera House she is as the Financial Times wrote brilliantly convincing The British award winning director Katie Mitchell took a revisionist approach to the drama updating the action to the mid19th century and applying a feminist slant as she added new and unexpected elements The Financial Times wrote Mitchell shows us on stage personal traumas that a selfrespecting woman in the early 19th century was meant to keep to herself It is a messy bloody list nocturnal sex trysts a knife murder a miscarriage a suicide in the bath In all this Damrau is brilliantly convincing Her rebellious Lucia is a woman of modern attitudes stuck in a still feudal Victorian world