Met resets Lucia in America’s rustbelt

First pictures from Simon Stone’s upcoming production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, based on a 19th century Scottish novel, shows soprano Nadine Sierra lounging outside a pawn shop in a drug-ridden nowhere town.

She tells AP:
“There’s a portion of this Lucia I absolutely get,” she said in an interview. Growing up in “not the most glitzy” neighborhood in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, she recalls being bullied in school and getting into a series of emotionally abusive relationships with men in her early 20s.

“I feel as if I’m playing myself,” in this production, she said. “How I would react to the way Lucia has to live her life.”

The production opens on Saturday.
Photo: Zenith Richards/Metropolitan Opera via AP