The semantics and pragmatics of the character of Edgardo from Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”
The semantics and pragmatics of the character of Edgardo from Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor”

Summary/Abstract: Lucia di Lammermoor is a universal masterpiece that stylistically combines twocontrasting vocal typologies, the lyricism of Italian belcanto and the dramatism of Europeanromantic period. The movement of the opera's action, the internal culminations, but also thegeneral soundtrack, all these elements of characterization rally to the belcantist aesthetics,but offer an extremely great romanticism opening. The scientific analysis of the main malecharacter – Edgardo – is based on information related on the artist who has performed inpremiere cast, on studying the character evolution in terms of vocal difficulty, and on thedetailed musical analysis, especially of the final aria scene. Part of analytic data is based onmy own scene experience.

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