"Lucia di Lammermoor Lucia di Lammermoor is a ""dramma tragico"" (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel ""The Bride of Lammermoor"". Donizetti wrote ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" in 1835, a time when several factors led to the height of his reputation as a composer of opera. Gioachino Rossini had recently retired and Vincenzo Bellini had died shortly before the premiere of ""Lucia"" leaving Donizetti as ""the sole reigning genius of Italian opera"". Not only were conditions ripe for Donizetti's success as a composer, but there was"
"di Lammermoor"" at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia in February 1944. After his death in a month later in New York City at the age of 59, he was succeeded by Nicola Rescigno, who later founded the Lyric Opera of Chicago, as musical director of the SCOC. Carlo Peroni (conductor) Carlo Peroni (1884, Rome - March 12, 1944, New York City) was an Italian opera conductor who served as the musical director of Fortune Gallo's San Carlo Opera Company (SCOC) from 1921 until his death 23 years later. With that company he performed in almost every major city in"
"Salvadore Cammarano Salvadore Cammarano (also Salvatore) (born Naples, 19 March 1801 – died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti. For Donizetti he also contributed the libretti for ""L'assedio di Calais"" (1836), ""Belisario"" (1836), ""Pia de' Tolomei"" (1837), ""Roberto Devereux"" (1837), ""Maria de Rudenz"" (1838), ""Poliuto"" (1838), and ""Maria di Rohan"" (1843), while for Giuseppe Persiani he was the author of ""Ines de Castro"". For Verdi he wrote ""Alzira"" (1845), ""La battaglia di Legnano"" (1849) and ""Luisa Miller"" (1849), but after"
"he died in July 1852, Verdi worked with Leone Emanuele Bardare to complete the libretto for ""Il trovatore"" (1853). Cammarano also started work on libretto for a proposed adaptation of William Shakespeare's play ""King Lear"", named ""Re Lear"", but he died before completing it; a detailed scenario survives. His father, Giuseppe, was a painter and set-designer. His son, Michele, was also a painter. Notes Sources Salvadore Cammarano Salvadore Cammarano (also Salvatore) (born Naples, 19 March 1801 – died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of ""Lucia di Lammermoor"""
"also a European interest in the history and culture of Scotland. The perceived romance of its violent wars and feuds, as well as its folklore and mythology, intrigued 19th century readers and audiences. Sir Walter Scott dramatized these elements in his novel ""The Bride of Lammermoor"", which inspired several musical works including ""Lucia"". The story concerns the emotionally fragile Lucy Ashton (Lucia) who is caught in a feud between her own family and that of the Ravenswoods. The setting is the Lammermuir Hills of Scotland (Lammermoor) in the 17th century. The opera premiered on 26 September 1835 at the Teatro"
"return in Italy, he was much admired in Rossini roles, notably as Otello. Tacchinardi retired from the stage in 1831, and turned to teaching. Amongst his students was his daughter, soprano Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani, who went on to create the title role in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"". He died at Florence. Nicola Tacchinardi Nicola Tacchinardi (3 September 1772 - 14 March 1859), was an Italian cellist and tenor, and later voice teacher. Tacchinardi was born at Livorno, began his career as a cellist at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence, and later turned to singing, making his debut as a tenor"
"<br> Sung by Eddie Cantor Music by Jimmy McHugh <br> Lyrics by Harold Adamson<br> Performed by Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis Music by Jimmy McHugh <br> Lyrics by Harold Adamson <br> Performed by Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis <br> Music and Lyrics by George Tibbles and Ramey Idriss <br> Sung and Danced by Margaret Kerry and Dickie Humphreys <br> Traditional Scottish 17th century music <br> Lyrics by Robert Burns <br> (1835) from ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" <br> Music by Gaetano Donizetti <br> Libretto by Salvatore Cammarano <br> Performed by Eddie Cantor, Joan Davis, George Murphy and Constance Moore from the film"
"disguise"". It was the first of the Italian operas to be based on Scott's romantic works, and marked the beginning of romanticism in Rossini's work. Scott was ""deeply influential in the development of Italian romantic opera"" to the extent that by 1840 (barely 20 years after this opera), there were 25 Italian operas based on his works, the most famous being Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" of 1835. Others in German, French and English followed. Written for the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, this was the seventh of nine operas which Rossini wrote for that house between 1815 and 1822. Although"
"Finally, Duprez was driven into an early retirement from the stage and he took up teaching. ""(List from German Wikipedia)"" Notes Sources Gilbert Duprez Gilbert-Louis Duprez (6 December 1806 – 23 September 1896) was a French tenor, singing teacher and minor composer who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest. He also created the role of Edgardo in the popular bel canto-era opera ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" in 1835. Gilbert-Louis Duprez was born in Paris. He studied singing, music theory, and composition with Alexandre-Étienne Choron and made his operatic début at the Odéon in 1825 as"
"di Lammermoor"" in Naples in 1835, one of the immortal roles of Romantic opera. Duprez was her Edgardo. Donizetti (remarking that she was ""not the brightest star"") told in a letter how in rehearsal she made an almighty row (which terrified Duprez) because, after Lucia's finale (the Mad Scene) there remained the finale of Edgardo ('Fra poco a me ricovero') before the curtain fell, displacing the final applause from herself to the tenor. She also sang Lucia in the first Paris performance, in December 1837, opposite Rubini (for whom Edgardo became one of his most celebrated roles), a performance received"
"at the Royal Opera House in London as Germont in 1967, and his Opéra de Paris debut took place in 1978, as Amonasro. He also appeared at the Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival. He worked with the greatest European conductors of his time (Karajan, Gavazzeni, Abbado, Kleiber) and became one of the finest interpreters of the Italian repertoire. Cappuccilli was highly respected as a ""Verdi baritone"", where his beautiful voice, fine vocal technique, musical elegance and dignified stage presence were shown to their best advantage. He left an impressive discography, he recorded ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" twice, first with"
"reputation was further consolidated, and Donizetti followed the paths of both Rossini and Bellini by visiting Paris, where his ""Marin Faliero"" was given at the Théâtre-Italien in March 1835. However, it suffered by comparison to Bellini's ""I puritani"" which appeared at the same time. Donizetti returned from Paris to oversee the staging of ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" on 26 September 1835. It was set to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, the first of eight for the composer. The opera was based on ""The Bride of Lammermoor"", the novel by Sir Walter Scott, and it was to become his most famous opera,"
"laments her loss, and the chorus comment that an angel missing from heaven has now returned there. Notes Sources Elena da Feltre Elena da Feltre is an opera in three acts by 19th-century Italian composer Saverio Mercadante from a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, well known as librettist of Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" and Verdi's ""Il trovatore"". The premiere took place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on 1 January 1839 as part of the Carnival Season. While not successful at the time, the opera was revived at La Scala in 1843 with twenty performances. When composing ""Elena da Feltre"""
"Ludmila, 1850–71) was an opera singer, and his son Luigi Ricci-Stolz (with Francesca, 1852–1906) was a composer, too. Luigi Ricci (composer) Luigi Ricci (8 July 1805 – 31 December 1859), was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. He was the elder brother of Federico Ricci, with whom he collaborated on several works. He was also a conductor. Ricci was born and educated in Naples, where he wrote his first opera at the conservatory in 1823. His triumphs in 1831 at La Scala with ""Chiara di Rosembergh"" and in 1834 with ""Un'avventura di Scaramuccia"" made him famous throughout Europe, and in"
"""Lucia di Lammermoor"" at Cartagena around 1896. While in Spain, her repertoire included operas such as ""La Sonnambula"", ""La Traviata"", ""Hamlet"", ""Lakmé"", and ""Les Huguenots"" (all sung in Italian). After becoming a favorite of the Spanish public, she went on to sing in Italy. Apparently she never sang at La Scala; instead, she performed at Milan's Teatro Dal Verme in 1901. Two years later, she performed with success at Parma in ""La Sonnambula"", alongside Piero Schiavazzi. During 1905 she toured parts of Europe, singing in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France as part of the Castellano Company, which also included tenor"
"Luciana Serra Luciana Serra (born November 4, 1946 in Genoa) is an Italian coloratura soprano. Serra made her international debut in 1966 as Eleonora in Cimarosa's """" at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest, but did not achieve general acclaim until the late 1970s, when she took on coloratura roles in Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" and Bellini's ""La sonnambula"". In 1988, Serra debuted at the Vienna State Opera singing the Queen of the Night in a new production of ""Die Zauberflöte"" conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and staged by Otto Schenk. Her fame reached a peak during the break of"
"belonging to the elegant 'old school' of pre-verismo vocalism. He can be heard as Edgardo in a complete recording of Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", with the coloratura soprano Lina Pagliughi in the title role and Ugo Tansini conducting, that was made by Cetra Records at the height of the tenor's powers in 1939. This performance was remastered in 2001 and released on CD by Naxos Records. In 2009, the Preiser label issued a CD devoted to Malipiero. It contains a selection of arias, ranging in compositional date from the bel canto era through to the verismo period, that he recorded"
"traviata""), Milan La Scala (""Falstaff"", ""Rigoletto"", ""La traviata""), New York Metropolitan Opera (""Attila"", ""La bohème"", ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", ""La Cenerentola"","" L'elisir d'amore"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", ""Rigoletto"", ""Der Rosenkavalier""), Madrid Teatro Real (""Werther""), Paris Opéra-Bastille (""Rigoletto, La traviata""), San Francisco Opera (""Un ballo in maschera, L'elisir d'amore, Lucia di Lammermoor""), Vienna State Opera (""La bohème"", ""L'elisir d'amore"", ""La favorita"", ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", ""Manon"", ""Maria Stuarda"", ""Rigoletto"", ""Roberto Devereux"", ""Werther""), Verona Arena (""Il barbiere di Siviglia"", ""Rigoletto""), and others. In addition to his operatic career, he is also an accomplished concert singer, with an extensive repertoire ranging from Italian classical songs"
"Elena da Feltre Elena da Feltre is an opera in three acts by 19th-century Italian composer Saverio Mercadante from a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, well known as librettist of Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" and Verdi's ""Il trovatore"". The premiere took place at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on 1 January 1839 as part of the Carnival Season. While not successful at the time, the opera was revived at La Scala in 1843 with twenty performances. When composing ""Elena da Feltre"" in 1838, Mercadante wrote to Francesco Florimo, laying out his ideas about how opera should be structured, following the"
"Gilbert Duprez Gilbert-Louis Duprez (6 December 1806 – 23 September 1896) was a French tenor, singing teacher and minor composer who famously pioneered the delivery of the operatic high C from the chest. He also created the role of Edgardo in the popular bel canto-era opera ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" in 1835. Gilbert-Louis Duprez was born in Paris. He studied singing, music theory, and composition with Alexandre-Étienne Choron and made his operatic début at the Odéon in 1825 as ""Count Almaviva"" in Rossini's ""Il barbiere di Siviglia"". He worked in that theatre without much success until 1828, when he decided to"
"from wounds received in an American air-raid on Desio. Finzi-Magrini is referenced often in Andre Maurois' 1920 novel ""Les silences du colonel Bramble"" (The Silence of Colonel Bramble). She is the favorite singer of the British officer of the title, who likes to listen to her singing on his gramophone throughout World War I. Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini (Turin, 1878 – Desio, 1944) was an Italian soprano. Finzi-Magrini made her debut in 1896 as Oscar in Lucia di Lammermoor. She was remembered for her style and moderation. In retirement she turned to teaching. Her students included the Danish baritone Frantz"
"its name was changed once again for the festivals to the . Teatro Comunale, Florence The is an opera house in Florence, Italy. It was originally built as the open-air amphitheatre, the Politeama Fiorentino Vittorio Emanuele, which was inaugurated on 17 May 1862 with a production of Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" and which seated 6,000 people. It became the focus on cultural life in the city. After closure caused by fire, it reopened in April 1864 and acquired a roof in 1882. By 1911 it had both electricity and heating. In 1930 the building was taken over by the city"
"Oliviero De Fabritiis Oliviero De Fabritiis (13 June 190212 August 1982) was an Italian conductor and composer. Oliviero De Fabritiis was born in Rome, where he studied with Refice and Setaccialo. He made his debut at the Teatro Nazionale in Rome in 1920, and later moved to the Teatro Adriano. He was artistic secretary at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma from 1932 until 1943. He inaugurated the summer performances at the Baths of Caracalla in 1937, with ""Lucia di Lammermoor"". He conducted widely in Italy, notably in Verona from 1948 until 1980. He conducted many operas with Beniamino Gigli, with"
"1936, as Duca di Mantua, and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", in 1938. He also took part in the creation of Giordano's ""Il Re"", at La Scala, in 1929. De Muro Lomanto made a number of records and can be heard in the first complete recording of ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", opposite Mercedes Capsir. He married the lyric soprano Toti Dal Monte in Sydney, Australia, during a 1928 operatic tour. The wedding party created international headlines when it gave the Fascist salute on the steps of St Mary's Cathedral. He died in 1952, aged"
"Longformacus Longformacus () is a small village in Berwickshire in the Scottish Borders area of Scotland. It is around north-west of Duns, in the Lammermuir Hills. The Dye Water runs through the village, flowing east towards its confluence with the Whiteadder Water nearby. In the vicinity are traces of an ancient fortification at Runklie or Wrinklaw and the Mutiny Stones cairn. The opera ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", written by Gaetano Donizetti and based on Sir Walter Scott's ""The Bride of Lammermoor"", was set in Longformacus. The Southern Upland Way, a Long Distance Route which crosses southern Scotland, passes through the village,"
"Eva Lind Eva Lind (born June 14, 1966) is an Austrian operatic soprano. Lind was born in Innsbruck, where she started singing as a teenager. While studying philosophy at the University of Vienna she continued her professional training as a singer. Her teachers were Marta Lantieri, Ruthilde Boesch and Wilma Lipp. At the age of 19, she made her professional debut as Queen of the Night in Mozart's ""The Magic Flute"" at the Vienna State Opera. and starred as Lucia in Donizetti's ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" in Basel. These two events marked the beginning of an international career which so far"
"Carlo Galeffi Carlo Galeffi (4 June 1884 – 22 September 1961) was a leading Italian baritone, particularly associated with the operatic works of Giuseppe Verdi and the various verismo composers. Galeffi was born in Malamocco (Venice). As a youth, he studied with Di Como and Sbriscia, later with Antonio Cotogni. According to ""The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera"", he made his professional debut in 1904, aged 21, at Rome's Teatro Adriano, as Enrico in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"". Galeffi sang throughout Italy before reaching Italy's premier opera house, La Scala, Milan, in 1912. He would remain at La Scala until 1938,"
"Marietta Brambilla Marietta Brambilla (6 June 1807 – 6 November 1875) was an Italian contralto who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe from 1827 until her retirement from the stage in 1848. She is best known today for having created the roles of Maffio Orsini in Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" and Pierotto in his ""Linda di Chamounix"", but she also created several other roles in lesser-known works. She was the elder sister of the opera singers Teresa and Giuseppina Brambilla and the aunt of Teresina Brambilla who was also an opera singer. Brambilla was born in Cassano d'Adda,"
"composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giovanni Pacini, Saverio Mercadante, Nicola Vaccai, and Pietro Antonio Coppola which took place at La Scala on 17 March 1837. Marietta Brambilla Marietta Brambilla (6 June 1807 – 6 November 1875) was an Italian contralto who sang leading roles in the opera houses of Europe from 1827 until her retirement from the stage in 1848. She is best known today for having created the roles of Maffio Orsini in Donizetti's ""Lucrezia Borgia"" and Pierotto in his ""Linda di Chamounix"", but she also created several other roles in lesser-known works. She was the elder sister of the"
"Cosselli was one of the first singers to make the transition between the old conception of the bass vocal range to what we know today as the baritone, a voice type that was still in its infancy. For Donizetti again, he created the role of Enrico in the highly successful ""Lucia di Lammermoor"", at the San Carlo in Naples, in 1835, giving to the role a new dramatic dimension, looking forward to what was to become known as the Verdi-baritone; the standard published score of Lucia contains several downward transpositions which mask the consistently high tessitura of the role as"
"Fabiana Bravo from Argentina to Washington DC. From there she also studied interpretation at the Renata Scotto Institute in Savona, Italy, and Verdian repertoire at the Verdi Opera Studio in Parma, Italy. Finally, she accepted a one-year scholarship program to study in Voghera, Italy, at the Academy of Vocal Arts. Her talent was noticed by singer Valeria Lynch, who hired Bravo and who, in 1995 introduced her to Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Pavarotti included Bravo in an operatic talent contest, which she won, and which led to her role with Pavarotti as Lucia di Lammermoor at the Academy of Music"
"a strong theatrical sense. Luigi Piazza Luigi Piazza (1884 – 22 March 1967), was an Italian operatic baritone, particularly associated with the Italian repertory, especially the role of Rigoletto. Piazza was born in Bologna, where he studied at the Bologna Conservatory with Alberoni. He made his stage debut there in 1908, as Enrico in ""Lucia di Lammermoor"". His main career spanned from 1910 until 1930, during which time he sang at most of the major opera houses in Italy, with the ""Teatro Communale"" in Bologna remaining his anchor. Outside Italy, he appeared in France and Spain, and in 1916 at"
"pleasures with you, Life for us will be A smile from merciful heaven.</poem> Il dolce suono ""Il dolce suono"" (""The Sweet Sound"") is the incipit of the recitativo of a ""scena ed aria"" taken from Act III scene 2, ""Lucia di Lammermoor"" by Gaetano Donizetti. It is also commonly known as the ""mad scene"" sung by the leading soprano, Lucia. Lucia descends into madness, and on her wedding night, while the festivities are still being held in the Great Hall, she stabs her new husband, Arturo, in the bridal chamber. Disheveled, unaware of what she has done, she wanders in"