![]() The role is intimidating, and Höglund approached it with careful control that, as she gains more confidence, could bloom into something quite special. Enrico’s scheme results in murder-suicide for the lovers.Īll Lucias are judged by their mad scene, but from the moment Höglund offered us her “Regnava nel silenzio” in the first act, we were promised good things to come. Lucia, freshly grieving over the loss of her mother, slowly descends into a fatal madness after Enrico, to preserve the family’s wealth and reputation, uses deception to trick his sister into abandoning Edgardo to marry the wealthy land-owning Arturo instead. All but Hage and Chen are graduates of MDLO’s Young Artist Institute.ĭonizetti’s early 19th-century tragedy, based on a tale by Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott, portrays the doomed love affair of the eponymous Scottish noble and Edgardo, a member of a rival family, desperately hated by Lucia’s brother Enrico. Chinese mezzo-soprano Daiyao Zhong and Chinese tenor Yang Chen sang the roles of Lucia and Enrico’s aides, respectively. In its first fully staged performance, this one at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center on the University of Maryland campus in College Park, Maryland Lyric Opera (MDLO)’s opening night of the show featured American soprano Maeve Höglund as the doomed Lucia baritone and South Korean native SeungHyeon Baek as her scheming brother Enrico Chinese tenor Yi Li as Lucia’s love interest, Edgardo Chinese bass Wei Wu as Raimondo, the clergyman and Lebanese-American Roy Hage as Lucia’s husband-by-arrangement, Arturo. ![]() ![]() Maeve Höglund as Lucia and Yi Li as Edgardo in Maryland Lyric Opera’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor. The company’s current production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor features a mostly homegrown roster, and the results are impressive. The Maryland Lyric Opera’s stated raison d’etre is to find and nurture good singers, then give them a place to test their mettle on masterworks such as those by Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, and the like. ![]()
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