She has also worked in the opera world. She is the director and co-librettist of the 2002 opera Galileo Galilei, music by Philip Glass, commissioned by the Goodman Theatre. In 2007, Zimmerman directed the first of a series of new productions for the Metropolitan Opera. She was engaged to stage a new production of Donizetti 's Lucia di Lammermoor starring Natalie Dessay, which opened the company's 2007-2008 season.
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Natalie Dessay