Stefano Poda, Lucia di Lammermoor

Stefano Poda’s production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor premiered yesterday at the Lausanne Opera, Switzerland.

The drama of the main character Lucia, alone in her struggle against a masculine and selfish world, takes place in a cold, closed, and heavy palace, an elegant and enormous coffin from which she tries in vain to escape. A perfect geometric cage, populated by spies, a prison dominated by incommunicability, an aesthetic and formal world that absorbs feelings and stifles them.

“But Lucia di Lammermoor is above all a scholarly architecture based on its final,” says Stefano Poda. “This is why, during her famous madness, Lucia will physically recreate the
reality around her and experience a new dimension: freedom. If thus Lucia enters de facto into another alienation, at least she liberates herself from all the obscurity that dominated her life.”

Lucia di Lammermoor is a new production of Opéra de Lausanne and will be on stage until October 8, 2017.