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Quality singing in a setting with novel accents at Glimmerglass
Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.
Shagimuratova and Beczała shine in Chicago Lucia
Strong vocal talent rules the night, and a late moment of visual splendor caps off a serviceable reading of a battered warhorse.