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19/12/2015

Rossini's La Donna del Lago

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Rossini's La Donna del Lago

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Rossini's opera La Donna del Lago.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Rossini's opera La Donna del Lago, starring Joyce DiDonato as Elena and Lawrence Brownlee as the king who pursues her.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York

Presented by Mary Jo Heath and commentator Ira Siff.

Joyce DiDonato reprises her stunning portrayal of the "lady of the lake" in Rossini's dazzling bel canto showcase set in the medieval Scottish highlands. Tenor Lawrence Brownlee is the king who pursues her. Michele Mariotti conducts the operatic adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's classic.


Elena..... Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Malcolm Groeme..... Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano)
Giacomo V..... Lawrence Brownlee (tenor)
Rodrigo di Dhu..... John Osborn (tenor)
Duglas d'Angus..... Oren Gradus (bass)
Albina..... Olga Makarina (soprano)
Bertram..... Gregory Schmidt (tenor)

The Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera
The Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera
Michele Mariotti (conductor)

Based on Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake, Rossini's opera illustrates the Romantic fascination with Scotland as a place of wild emotion and political confrontation.
Elena, the Lady of the Lake, longs to be united with her true love, Malcom. But her father, the rebel Duglas, is determined that she will marry the Highland chief Rodrigo. Torn between love and duty, she finds her plight is made all the more complicated by Uberto, a handsome stranger who nobody seems to know much about.

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