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CRAZY FOR YOU.(Metropolitan Opera Orchestra stages 'Lucia di Lammermoor')(Brief article)

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Byline: Adam Green

Peter Gelb continues to bring fresh life to grand opera by turning to its more raffish cousin_-the theater. Under the baton of maestro James Levine, the Met's season opener is the inspired theater director Mary Zimmerman's staging of Donizetti's four-hankie bel canto crowd pleaser Lucia di Lammermoor, starring the glorious Natalie Dessay as the doomed bride driven to madness and death by a broken heart. (The tenor Marcello Giordani is her steadfast, if ...

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