Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Walter Scott's 1819 historical n
Fanny Tacchinardi Persiani as Lucia in the London premiere in 1838
Drawing for Lucia di Lammermoor libretto cover (1954)
Lammermuir Hills, Scotland
Set design for act 3, scene 3 by Francesco Bagnara, circa 1844 (Civica Raccolta Stampe Bertarelli Milan)
The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Ac
Lucia di Lammermoor
…by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian-language libretto loosely based upon Walter Scott's 1819 historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor. Donizetti wrote Lucia di Lammermoor in 1835, when he was reaching the peak of his reputation as an opera composer. Gioachino Rossini had recently…
Ravenswood and Lucy at the Mermaiden's Well by Charles Robert Leslie
Ravenswood encounters the apparition of Alice, illustrated by Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (1892)
The Bride of Lammermoor by William Powell Frith, 1852
Viscount Stair (1619–1695) whose daughter provided the model for Lucy Ashton