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Why you should see it: Fabulous, hummable “bel canto” tunes, heart-wrenching love denied and perhaps the most famous (and bloody) “madness scene” in all of opera. What it’s about: Montagues and Capulets. Hatfields and McCoys. Ashtons and Ravenswoods. Miss Lucy Ashton (Lucia) loves the enemy, Sir Edgar of Ravenswood (Edgardo). But the head of her family, her brother Lord Henry Ashton (Enrico) tricks her into thinking Edgardo has been unfaithful and insists that she to marry his political ally Lord Arthur Bucklaw (Arturo), instead. She reluctantly agrees, Edgardo rushes in, and the greatest sextet in all opera results! The wedding reception is interrupted, however, when Raimondo rushes in announcing that Lucia has gone mad, and stabbed her bridegroom Arturo to death. Disheveled and unaware of what she has done, she wanders in, recalling her time spent with Edgardo and imagining the two of them married. Believing herself in heaven, Lucia falls dying. Edgar, in his grief, commits suicide on the tombs of his ancestors, hoping at last to be together with his love, in Heaven. Based on Sir Walter Scott’s historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor. |
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