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This, plus the composer’s succession of bravura vocal thrills (including the famous Mad Scene!), make for an experience you’ll remember forever. Little wonder that Lucia is mentally crushed and destroyed, driven to madness and murder before she dies of a broken heart.ĭonizetti based Lucia di Lammermoor on a popular novel by Sir Walter Scott, and every minute crackles with drama. And he deploys every devious device he can muster, including lies, forgery, and finally the false revelation of Edgardo’s infidelity.

But their two clans are bitter rivals, so Lucia’s villainous brother Enrico sets out to kill his young sister’s romance. In Scotland, Lucia and Edgardo are breathlessly, desperately in love. Impossibly beautiful music (including the famous Barcarolle) combined with flamboyant theatricality - that’s why Offenbach’s extravaganza is the perfect way to open our season. Then, he falls for Antonia, a fragile songstress who’ll die if she sings - and regrettably for him, she does both! Finally he’s seduced by Giulietta - but the treacherous courtesan casts him aside. If ever a man was unlucky at love, it’s Hoffmann, the wild-eyed poet who travels the world in search of the ideal woman and ends up thwarted by villains at every turn.įirst, he’s smitten by Olympia - but discovers she’s nothing more than a mechanical doll.