Lucie de Lammermoor

Lucie de Lammermoor is an opera with a score by Domenico Gaetano Donizetti and a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano based upon Sir Walter Scott’s The bride of Lammermoor. It had its world premiere in the original Italian version as Lucia di Lammermoor at the San Carlo Opera house in Naples on 26 September 1835, and it was given in Paris for the first time in this same form on 12 December 1837 at the Théâtre-Italien. It was produced at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London on 5 april 1838, but only its…