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“Quench the evil flame by blood”: A striking Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel

By Sarah Batschelet, 20 October 2018
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“Rosa Feola’s performance as Lucia carried the production”
Reviewed at Theater Basel, Basel on 19 October 2018
Programme
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers
Theater Basel
Giampaolo Bisanti, Conductor
Olivier Py, Director
Pierre-André Weitz, Set Designer, Costume Designer
Ernesto Petti, Enrico
Svetlana Moskalenko, Lucia
Fabián Lara, Edgardo
Marco Lee, Arturo
Karl-Heinz Brandt, Normanno
Ena Pongrac, Alisa
Tassos Apostolou, Raimondo
Chor Theater Basel
Basel Symphony Orchestra
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Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschelet
Sarah Batschlelet, long based in Switzerland, took a degree in Art History from Smith College, Northampton, Massachuetts, and lives as a freelance writer and editor near Zurich.