Show LUCIA THE APOGEE OF TRAGIC TRA GIG OPERA Composers Brilliant Career of Prom Promise ise Lse Has Sad and td Tempestuous Ending Donizetti was born at Bergamo Berganio Italy ItaI In Iq 1797 1791 He studied music at the Conser Conservatory Conservatory atory of Naples where he made a specialty specialty of ot opera He Ho entered the army while very young and wrote his first opera while his regiment was at Naples The of ot hIs ills second opera was no so great that tha he was exempted from fur further further further ther military ry service In 1435 Lucia dl di appeared and was hailed had with delight In it Is some of ot the most beautiful music ever written and through it he secured a professorship at the Na Naples Naples ples pies conservatory In twentysix years he wrote operas The loss of ot othis his wife after two years of ot married life liCe preyed pr ed on his mind Melancholia dis din dissipation dissipation and hard work Induced madness which ended end d In his death in ISIS He wrote Tote for a gay ga people and was was the idol of ot the Italian school His work Is graphic and anzi his method beautiful Be Lucia three other operas are arc great eat favorites The Daughter of at the Regiment Lucrezia Borgia and La Favorita The story of ot Lucia Is taken from Scotts novel The Bride of The scene Is laid in Scotland in the latter part of ot the seventeenth century c Sir SIt Henry Ashton has arranged to marry his hiI sister Lucy to Lord Arthur Bucklaw for the purpose of ot mending the family for fortunes fortunes fortunes tunes and getting exemption for political political political cal indiscretions He discovers discover that Lucy LuZy has plighted herself herselt to his hereditary ene enemy enem my m Sir Edgar Ravenswood who has promised Lucy on the eve ve of ot his depar tune for France to forgive her broth r rand and forego his oath of ot vengeance Henry Is desperate and Intercepts Edgars let letters letters letters and finally shows Lucy a forged let letter et etter ter to prove her h r lover false He tells her only her marriage marri ge to Bucklaw will save sae him from execution and she consents to lo sacrifice herself Edgar suddenly returns as the marriage papers are being signed and in fury and grief tears his ring from her finger tramples tho the marriage con contract contract contract tract and challenges her brother At night an ominous sound is heard in Lucys apartment and the attendants rush in to find her in her wedding robes with a dripping dagger in her hand She has gone mad and stabbed Lord Arthur The realization of her deed finally com corn coming comIng I ing log to her she dies from remorse Edgar waiting for his duel with Henry hears the tolling bells and learns of the tho trag tragedy tragedy tragedy edy and in his grief for Lucys death commits suicide The role of Lucy af at affords affords fords the greatest opportunities for the display it f vocal ocal ability The Th sextet in rn inthe Inthe the marriage scene is one of the worlds greatest musical mu masterpieces |