Lost Love Leads to Madness: “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Lucia Ashton is a madwoman, but she didn’t start out that way. Like Juliet Capulet, she falls in love with someone from a rival family and is under extreme pressure to marry someone else. Lucia finally cracks under the demands of her family and the absence of her beloved, and like Juliet, she perishes. Lyric […]
