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Culture club: Castleward goes for grand Italian version of Lucia.(Features)

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From: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
Date: 20020520
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Byline: Ian Hill

SCOTS romantic-actioner novelist Sir Walter Scott - the post-chasehouse best-seller of his day - wrote the alliteratively titled Lucy of Lammermoor only to find it whisked off to Italy where Gaetano Donizetti and friends restructured the 16th-century grouse-rich but cash- and ethics-poor Scots politician Lord Henry into the ...

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