Go Inside the Technical Aspects of The Met's New Staging of Lucia di Lammermoor

Playbill: In the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Lucia di Lammermoor, the singers tackling Donizetti’s bel canto pyrotechnics aren’t the only ones being pushed to the limit. Simon Stone’s audacious present-day staging, which moves the action to a declining town in America’s Rust Belt, incorporates several innovative technical elements to tell Lucia’s story and conjure its setting as vividly as possible, and the Met’s backstage wizards are pulling out all the stops to make it happen.