When Joan Sutherland came to Boston on a Metropolitan Opera tour in 1964, in her signature role of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, a friend and I were sitting in the next-to-last row of the balcony, ...
Donizetti and librettist Felice Romani clearly sympathised with the two main female characters. Their respective predicaments are portrayed with sensitivity and compassion while the ruthless, ...