[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":55},["ShallowReactive",2],{"opera-en-donizetti-lucia-di-lammermoor":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"anno":6,"aria":7,"atti":10,"bio":20,"body":21,"compositore":28,"description":25,"extension":29,"finale":30,"meta":31,"navigation":32,"opere":20,"order":20,"path":33,"personaggi":34,"seo":51,"slug":20,"stem":52,"tagline":53,"years":20,"__hash__":54},"en/en/donizetti/lucia-di-lammermoor.md","Lucia di Lammermoor","Naples, 1835",{"nome":8,"descrizione":9},"Il dolce suono — The Mad Scene","Lucia appears in a blood-stained wedding gown, singing in a state of ecstatic hallucination. It is the most virtuosistic and devastating scene in all bel canto. No soprano ever forgets it.",[11,14,17],{"titolo":12,"testo":13},"Act I — Forbidden Love","Scotland, 17th century. Lucia and Edgardo love each other in secret: their families have been enemies for generations. Edgardo must leave for France. They exchange vows of marriage. Enrico, Lucia's brother, needs a political alliance and has already chosen another husband for her: Arturo Bucklaw.",{"titolo":15,"testo":16},"Act II — The Signature and the Wedding","Enrico convinces Lucia that Edgardo has abandoned her by showing her a forged letter. Lucia, broken, signs the marriage contract. At that very moment Edgardo bursts in, returned from France. He sees the signature. He curses her. Lucia cannot explain herself. The quartet that follows — Lucia, Edgardo, Enrico and Raimondo — is one of the most heartbreaking moments in all bel canto history.",{"titolo":18,"testo":19},"Act III — The Madness and the Deaths","That same night, during the wedding feast, Raimondo comes down the stairs with a stricken face. Lucia has killed her husband in the bridal chamber. Then she appears — in a white wedding gown stained with blood, eyes unseeing. She sings in another voice, from another life. She is already elsewhere. She dies shortly after. Edgardo, on hearing the news, stabs himself on the Ravenswood tomb.",null,{"type":22,"value":23,"toc":24},"minimark",[],{"title":25,"searchDepth":26,"depth":26,"links":27},"",2,[],"Donizetti","md","Lucia di Lammermoor defined the Romantic figure of the woman destroyed by love and family. The mad scene influenced every subsequent representation of female madness in nineteenth-century art.",{},true,"/en/donizetti/lucia-di-lammermoor",[35,39,43,47],{"nome":36,"voce":37,"descrizione":38},"Lucia","Coloratura soprano — the protagonist","A young Scottish woman, romantic and fragile. She loves Edgardo with her whole being. When forced to marry another, her mind shatters — and Donizetti transforms madness into music.",{"nome":40,"voce":41,"descrizione":42},"Edgardo di Ravenswood","Tenor","A nobleman in a feud with Lucia's family. Their love is forbidden from the start. His final death is among the most beautiful in the tenor repertoire.",{"nome":44,"voce":45,"descrizione":46},"Enrico Ashton","Baritone — the brother","Lucia's brother, he forces her to marry another for political reasons. He is not a monster: he is a man who puts family before everything. The result is monstrous nonetheless.",{"nome":48,"voce":49,"descrizione":50},"Raimondo","Bass — the chaplain","Lucia's confidant, he tries to protect her. It is he who announces to the wedding guests what has happened in the bridal chamber.",{"title":5,"description":25},"en/donizetti/lucia-di-lammermoor","The most famous mad scene in opera history — and a love story shattered by family","Ctw5Jkuo_DGcR-VF-Ov5ESKQpjOa-s7wcZISNRmWFkI",1774014353284]