Florida Grand Opera Lucia di Lammermoor

By Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano

Trapped between a brother's political ambitions and a love forbidden by family feud, Lucia secretly pledges herself to Edgardo, her family's sworn enemy. Her brother Enrico forges a letter to convince Lucia that Edgardo has betrayed her and forces her into a marriage of political convenience to save the family's crumbling fortunes. Edgardo returns just as Lucia signs the marriage contract, cursing her before vanishing in despair. Pushed past her breaking point, Lucia descends into madness on her wedding night, killing her new husband in a horrifying, blood-soaked aria that ranks among opera's most harrowing scenes. Edgardo, learning too late of her innocence and ruin, takes his own life at her tomb.

Donizetti's masterpiece blends bel canto's most demanding vocal writing with raw psychological drama, climaxing in the legendary "Mad Scene" that has made the careers of history's greatest sopranos.


The opera will be sung in Italian with English- and Spanish-projected translations.