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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Met moves Donizetti opera to decaying American town

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Call it bel canto in the Rust Belt.

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of “Lucia di Lammermoor” plucks the ill-fated heroine out of the Scottish hills where Sir Walter Scott placed her in his 1819 novel and where Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti kept her in his opera 16 years later.

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