Lucia di Lammermoor Is As Dark A Tale As They Come
Photo credit: Tim Matheson
The buzz over this production will be replete with adulation for the young Cuban-born Guttiérez, and deservedly so. Here is a singer blessed with a sumptuous, velvet soprano, matched by effortless control and flexibility. Guttiérez delivered more than fluid, pitch-perfect vocal acrobatics: her Lucia was a portrait of a tremulous, sensitive creature pushed to her breaking point by grief, the increasingly florid lines of her coloratura marking her loosening grasp on reality in the famed mad scene. This she filled with such raw human emotion that it left the audience gasping.
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