Wim Trompert gets his revenge. After a confusing Don Pasquale he is back again at  the Reisopera with a staging that speaks for itself. His Lucia di Lammermoor, another opera by Donizetti, is set in a timeless, slanted decor, giving room for  Lucias’s unstable emotions.

[...] Fortunately Trompert doesn't over load his staging with  ideas that distract from the  overall emotional line. He bets on a wedding dress that Lucia rips off her body in a dream, long before she is forced into the marriage, showing her evident fears. At the end he surprises. As Lucia succumbs to her sorrow, Eduardo does not stab himself with the dagger as written in the  Libretto. He is defeated but remains standing. Only when  Lucia’s brother's companions aim their rifles at him, does he fall.

Bela Luttmer in De Volkskrant, May 14th, 2012

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Reisopera scores with 'Lucia'
'a performance that seems to be attractive for a big audience.'

Eddie Vetter in De Telegraaf, May 14th, 2012

Rea Kost as Alisa
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Petya Ivanova as Lucia

Roland Wood as Lord Enrico Ashton
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Petya Ivanova as Miss Lucia

Cast:

Lord Enrico Ashton - Roland Wood, Miss Lucia - Petya Ivanova, Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood - Peter Auty, Lord Arturo Buklaw - Gregory Warren, Raimondo Bidebent - Mika Kares, Alisa - Rea Kost, Normanno - Philip O'Brien

Petya Ivanova as Lucia

Het Gelders Orkest
Chorus of the Nationale Reisopera

Conductor: Antonino Fogliani
Staging: Wim Trompert
Set design: John Otto
Costumes: Mirjam Pater
Light: Uri Rapaport
Video: Thomas Bergmann and Willem Bramsche
Dramaturgie: Natascha Veldhorst
Photo's: Marco Borggreve