Lucia di Lammermoor

Lucia di Lammermoor is an Italian opera in three acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1838)[1] and a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano (1801-1852)[2].

The original text

The opera is based on Sir Walter Scott's novel, The Bride of Lammermoor and was first performed on September 26, 1835 at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, Italy.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1895: Performed by the Ancarina Massimimi Italian Opera Company in the Opera House, Cape Town, early in the year. Though the company's performances in its extensive repertoire were considered excellent performers by Boonzaier (1923), he says that the company failed to gain much public support and that the entire undertaking was "a disastrous failure".

Sources

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Cammarano

D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)

F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1912. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.203-205

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