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Lucia di Lammermoor
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Lucia di Lammermoor

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti (libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, based on Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor), first produced at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy, on 26 September 1835. In the story, Lucia loves the family enemy Edgardo, but her brother Enrico forces her to marry Arturo. When Edgardo finds out, Lucia goes mad and kills Arturo. Edgardo commits suicide from grief.
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Lucie de Lammermoor, created for Paris in 1839, was performed in New Orleans in 1841, but this French version subsequently fell out of favor.
Cincinnati by Gelfand, Janelle / Opera Canada
In Donizetti’s Lucie de Lammermoor (the French version of the more familiar Lucia di Lammermoor), the heroine indulges in opera’s most famous “mad scene” before taking her life.
Going Bonkers at the Opera: Glimmerglass Flirts With Chaos by Charles Michener / The New York Observer
 
 
 
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