Review: In ‘Lucia’ at the Met, a Modern Woman Comes Undone - The New York Times

Simon Stone’s new staging of Donizetti’s classic opera updates the work to a present-day American town — hold (some of) the madness.

But this drama, however intimate, is still shaped by its social context: the distress of a class and gender that feel themselves being squeezed out. A similar dynamic, of course, is playing out in Am… [+1305 chars]

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