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Gradually going flat: Lucia di Lammermoor at Buxton Opera Festival

By Charlotte Valori, 15 July 2015
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Reviewed at Buxton Opera House, Buxton on 12 July 2015
Programme
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor
Performers
Buxton Festival Opera
Stephen Barlow, Conductor
Stephen Unwin, Director
Jonathan Fensom, Set Designer
Elin Pritchard, Lucia
Adriano Graziani, Edgardo
Stephen Gadd, Enrico
Natalie Sinnott, Alisa
Bonaventura Bottone, Arturo
Richard Roberts, Normanno
Andrew Greenan, Raimondo
Northern Chamber Orchestra
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Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori
Charlotte Valori read Classics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a classicist, her main interest is Greek tragedy and its reception by later cultures, which has led to a continuing passion for theatre and opera. Charlotte reviews for several online magazines, and won the Bachtrack Opera Award 2015 for Best Written English Review. Follow her on Twitter @operissima.