[lit-ideas] Lucy -- did she OWN the Lammermuir Hills
- From: jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:24:21 -0400
Ritchie reports:
THE HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE LAMMERMUIR
Anyone who has seen LUCIA DI LAMMERMUIR wonders, did that bitch own the
land? What happens when the owner of a land (as the Hills of Lammermuir
that Lucy owned) becomes crazy (as she did). And when the brother, who
also owned them, disappears.
Anyone who´s seen the opera knows that the real owner of the land was
the tenor, but he dies too. So I suppose the Lammermuir hills thus
passed to be of the National Trust.
The problem with Donizetti (Don "Izett", the descendant of a Scots who
loved the South of France and the North of Italy) is that he changed
the names of the novelese by Scott (all historical). There´s lord
Rutherford, rather than Ravenswood. All the toponymy in the opera has
been adapted for Neapolitan audiences (the thing opened in the summer
in San Carlo, Napoli) so you can expect a few poetic licenses.
Cheers,
JL Speranza, Gli Operarii, Villa Speranza, Bordighera
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