Great success for Gimadieva and Flórez in Lucia

By Laura Servidei, 14 May 2018

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“Venera Gimadieva... a brilliant, phosphorescent top register”

Reviewed at Nationaltheater, Munich on 13 May 2018

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor

Bavarian State Opera

Antonino Fogliani, Conductor

Barbara Wysocka, Director

Barbara Hanicka, Set Designer

Julia Kornacka, Costume Designer

Mariusz Kwiecień, Enrico

Venera Gimadieva, Lucia

Juan Diego Flórez, Edgardo

Galeano Salas, Arturo

Sergiu Saplacan, Normanno

Rachael Wilson, Alisa

Mika Kares, Raimondo

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

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Laura Servidei

Mathematician, science nerd, translator of popular science books, obsessed opera fan since the teen years. Day job: business analyst in a software house developing systems for the financial industry. Amateur choral singer. Main musical interests: baroque music and Italian opera. Originally from Italy, currently based in Sweden. I make a mean eggplant parmesan.

Great success for Gimadieva and Flórez in Munich's Lucia di Lammermoor