Lucia… can easily become an exercise in black and white a sort of dark Dark Shadows, but stage director Marvel has resisted that to I think very good effect.
I think that there are things in the staging of the mad scene that have never been done before.
The Indiana University Opera Theater opens their 2009-2010 season with Gioachino Rossini’s first big success the comic L’Italiana in Algeri
The Indiana University Opera Theater opens their 2009-10 with Gioachino Rossini’s the Italian girl in Algiers, (l'Italiana in Algeri).