Riccardo Frizza opens the 2016-17 season with his return to Donizetti’s masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor at Opéra National de Paris. The Italian maestro leads a stunning cast with Pretty Yende and Nina Minasyan alternating the role of Lucia, Artur Rucinski as Enrico, Piero Pretti and Rame Lahaj alternating the role of Edgardo, and Oleksiy Palchykov as Arturo and Rafal Siwek as Raimondo. The production is directed by Andrei Serban and opens on October 14, with additional performances October 17, 23, 26, 29 and November 4, 8, 11, 14, and 16.
Riccardo Frizza previously led Lucia di Lammermoor at Teatro Massimo de Palermo and will lead another staging at Teatro la Fenice in April.