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Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Workshop Lucia di Lammermoor for singers

10 - 22 March 2014

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Workshop around Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, resulting in a presentation of a few scenes from Lucia di Lammermoor.

A double cast, especially for the main roles, will be selected for the seven roles:

Lucia – soprano
Lord Enrico Ashton – baritone
Sir Edgardo di Ravenswood – tenor
Lord Arturo Bucklaw – tenor
Raimondo Bidebent – bass
Alisa – mezzo soprano
Normanno – tenor

Before the workshop singers learn a complete role from Lucia di Lammermoor.

During the first week of the workshop the singers work on the role perfecting musical style, phrasing and language of this opera of Donizetti. Singers are trained by a co repetitor, a bel canto specialist and a movement teacher.
The participants visit during this first workshop week the final rehearsals of the Lucia di Lammermoor production on the main stage of DNO and a performance.

During the second week of the workshop a few main scenes from the opera will be rehearsed by two young stage directors under supervision of stage director Monique Wagemakers. The stage directors will direct both the same scenes with both casts and the singers sing the scenes therefore twice in a different staging. At the end of the workshop their will be a public presentation of these scenes.

Monique Wagemakers - Dutch director, Monique Wagemakers, studied dance pedagogy and music at the Brabants Conservatorium in Tilburg. In 2006 she directed an internationally acclaimed production of Madama Butterfly, for the Staatsoper Stuttgart, and working together with dramaturg Prof. Klaus Zehelein, she was nominated for Director of the Year by Opernwelt magazine. She has a long association with the Netherlands Opera, Amsterdam, where she made her directorial debut with Madama Butterfly, followed by Rigoletto, and more recently, a new and successful production of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Muziektheater in Amsterdam.

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