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The setting amid the brooding Scottish moors may be grand, but Gladstone has been digging to get at the emotional crux of the story of a young Scottish woman, Lucia, who loves her clan’s enemy but is forced to marry another man for financial reasons—and is pushed into madness. Gladstone says he’s approached the piece very much as the playwright he is, seeking to stage a Lucia that Donizetti himself might have liked.
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