The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor

NCM Fathom brings the fifth season of the Metropolitan Opera's Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD in movie theaters nationwide. The broadcast of Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor will be presented live for only one day on Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 1 PM ET / 10 AM PT in select movie theaters. Natalie Dessay triumphed as the fragile heroine of Donizetti's masterpiece on Opening Night of the 2007-08 season in Mary Zimmerman's hit production. Now she returns to the role of the innocent young woman driven to madness, opposite Joseph Calleja, who sings her lover Edgardo.