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    A certain tragic novel formed part of a series and eventually inspired a composer. Nearly 150 years after the novel was published, a young tenor made his unexpected American debut in an opera based on the novel, after having been suggested by the leading lady. What is the novel, what is the opera, and who was the tenor?

    Question #85465. Asked by lanfranco. (Sep 06 07 4:57 PM)


    robraw

    		In February 1965, Pavarotti made his US debut in a Miami production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” with Joan Sutherland, filling in for a tenor who fell ill.
    http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&entitY_id=3783&source_type=A

    Lucia di Lammermoor
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucia_di_Lammermoor

    The novel the opera was based on is Sir Walter Scott's historical novel 'The Bride of Lammermoor'.

    Sep 06 07, 5:09 PM
    lanfranco

    		Lovely, robraw. And given the most famous scene in "Lucia," I'll award you a straitjacket with silver buckles.

    Here's a little more information about Scott and the novel, below.

    RIP, Luciano.




    http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/biography/novel.html

    Sep 06 07, 5:16 PM

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