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¥ [LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR?" figured in a recent "Music from the Theatre" session-that very Italian, very operative tragedy, over which looms, like an astonished full moon, the face of Sir Walter Scott, from whose Bride of Lammermoor -read by Mr. Simmance the other day -is taken. The adaption of themes to Italian opera is a perennial cause of comment-James Agate has pointed out
that Damon Runyon’s story "Sense of Humour" is almost identical with the plot of Rigoletto; but "Lucia" enjoys enough renown to suggest that the adaptation was not unsuccessful. But many pitfalls are there; a tale is told of an Italian company which performed this opera in Birmingham some years ago. It seems that the chorus of clansmen strode in a militant manner about the stage with their sporrans slung not. fore but aft, thus resembling the humbler rodent animals in a rather diverting manner-a scene to which only Compton Mackenzie could do full justice.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 339, 21 December 1945, Page 8
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