About this edition
Few works embody the fire and pathos of Italian bel canto as completely as Lucia di Lammermoor. Premiered in Naples in 1835 and drawn from Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor, Donizetti's tragedy of thwarted love and shattered sanity gave the operatic stage one of its most enduring set pieces: the harrowing "Mad Scene," with its haunting flute obbligato, alongside the celebrated Sextet "Chi mi frena in tal momento." It remains a cornerstone of the coloratura soprano repertoire and a defining work of Italian Romantic opera.
This edition reproduces the vocal score published in New York by G. Schirmer in 1898 (plate 14047), part of the firm's influential catalog of standard operatic works prepared for American singers, teachers, and opera companies during the late nineteenth century. Schirmer's editions became the reference texts through which generations of American musicians first encountered the great European operas, and this Lucia di Lammermoor score reflects that careful editorial tradition.
About this edition:
- Format: full orchestral score
- Page size: 8.5 x 11 inches
- Reproduced from a historical public domain source
- Published by Purple 4R Publishing
Because this score entered the public domain long ago, we're able to bring this historic Schirmer edition back into print, making Donizetti's masterpiece freely accessible again to musicians, students, and scholars who want to hold this piece of operatic history in their hands.
