New York Times: Pretty Yende is back at the Metropolitan Opera singing the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"

The soprano Pretty Yende, appearing in Donizetti's “Lucia di Lammermoor” at the Metropolitan Opera. Credit Nathan Bajar for The New York Times

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The New York Times

May 4, 2018

I was delighted to speak recently with the thoughtful young soprano Pretty Yende, whose international career has been taking off. She offered revealing comments about growing up as a black girl in South Africa who stumbled into opera at 16 when, of all things, she heard a British Airways television commercial. Ms. Yende is back at the Metropolitan Opera singing the title role of Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor.” (There are two more performances.) It took courage to sing this daunting role. But she had a breakthrough success with Lucia in 2016 at the Paris Opera. Here she is singing the climax of the mad scene during that run.  ANTHONY TOMMASINI