Rosa Feola’s Lucia rescues a San Carlo production showing its age

Rosa Feola (Lucia)

Alexander Köpeczi (Raimondo), René Barbera (Edgardo) and chorus

Mattia Olivieri (Enrico) and Rosa Feola (Lucia)

Lucia di Lammermoor

By Lorenzo Fiorito, 12 March 2026

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“the voice seemed to float with a quality of poetic luminosity that was entirely its own”

Reviewed at Teatro di San Carlo, Naples on 11 March 2026

Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor

Teatro di San Carlo

Francesco Lanzillotta, Conductor

Gianni Amelio, Director

Nicola Rubertelli, Set Designer

Maurizio Millenotti, Costume Designer

Pasquale Mari, Lighting Designer

Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo

Coro del Teatro di San Carlo

Mattia Olivieri, Enrico

Rosa Feola, Lucia

René Barbera, Edgardo

Tianxuefei Sun, Arturo

Alexander Köpeczi, Raimondo

Sayumi Kaneko, Alisa

Francesco Domenico Doto, Normanno

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Lorenzo Fiorito

Lorenzo Fiorito holds degrees in Humanities and in Languages and Literatures, and a Phd in Languages for Special Purposes. He is a lecturer in historical musicological subjects at the Pegaso University, Naples, the Universitas Mercatorum, Rome and MEDEA Higher Education Institution, Malta, currently researching musicology as a special language. He is a member of the National Music Critics Association and of the Italian Society of Musicology. He edited a series of volumes in Musicology and History of Music for the publisher Diana Edizioni, mainly concerning the Neapolitan School of Music of the 18th century, and is the founder and artistic director of the “Francesco Durante Festival” in Frattamaggiore.