| Donizetti's tragic masterpiece is based on Sir Walter Scott's novel, The Bride Of Lammermoor, a brooding tale of love, murder, and vengeance set in seventeenth-century Scotland. With its famous "Mad Scene", Lucia has long been regarded as a showcase for the soprano. In 1859, Adelina Patti at the age of sixteen, made her operatic debut as Donizetti's Lucia. |