Sometimes these things just seem to fall into place.
Right now, there is a big revival of “bel canto” singing. Witness the new productions in opera houses around the world and critically acclaimed new recordings by mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli and tenor Juan Diego Florez.
n May the Madison Opera will stage one of the biggest and best known of bel canto operas, Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” based on the Gothic novel by Sir Walter Scott and featuring a famous mad scene of soaring arias.
In May the Madison Opera will stage one of the biggest and best known of bel canto operas, Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor,” based on the Gothic novel by Sir Walter Scott and featuring a famous mad scene of soaring arias.
Keeping in that spirit, this week UW Opera will stage Donizetti’s last comic opera, “Don Pasquale.”