Soprano Irina Lungu singing Il dolce suono from Opera Zurich's production of Lucia di Lammermoor.

Love, destruction-laden love, without which opera remains cold. This was the stuff that Donizetti demanded of material for an opera – and it was what he got in spades from Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor. Lucia has fallen in love with Edgardo, the mortal enemy of her brother Enrico.

Edgardo is willing to disregard the longstanding hatred between the two families, but Enrico is enraged when he hears of his sister’s love for Edgardo. Secretly, Enrico has arranged to marry Lucia off to the wealthy Arturo Bucklaw, hoping to rescue his own debt-laden finances in the process. But she is ultimately broken by her unrequited love. As if possessed, she becomes a murderess, and only her own death is left as an escape.

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