Lucia di Lammermoor review – Jennifer France is a delight in touching and convincing Donizetti staging

Lucia di Lammermoor review – Jennifer France is a delight in touching and convincing Donizetti staging

Opera Holland Park, LondonThe unforced warmth of France’s heroine wins the audience’s sympathy from the outset in Cecilia Stinton’s thoughtful new staging of the bel canto bloodbathA murderess who goes mad or a madwoman who commits murder? Donizetti’s bel canto bloodbath has lost none of its power to intrigue as well as entertain in the 190 years since its Naples premiere. In Cecilia Stinton’s thoughtful new staging the heroine is a charmer, a l…