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  • ‘Lucia’, Your First Best Worst Opera

    Romeo and Juliet in Scotland.  That is the easiest way to sum up Gaetano Donizetti’s dramatic opera, Lucia di Lammermoor. It is, perhaps, unfair to summarize this opera so succinctly, when it is so famous, so much a “classic” of the opera genre.  Following the links on Wikipedia, I learned that Lucia was based on a Continue reading

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