Enrico Ashton Laird This is Me

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1. 1. Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti)

   www.operamusic.com/lucdilamdon - [Cached]

   Published on: 7/9/2003   Last Visited: 9/15/2004

   Enrico Ashton Laird of Lammermoor, Lucia's brother baritone
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   Act 1.i The grounds of Ravenswood Castle After a short B minor prelude, punctuated by ominous drumrolls, mournful horn phrases and a dirge-like march, the curtain rises on Normanno and the other huntsmen, who are about to explore the nearby ruins of the castle belonging to Enrico's hated enemy (chorus, ‘Per correte le spiagge vicine'). The huntsmen leave, and Normanno, seeing that Enrico is troubled, learns from him that the Lammermoor fortunes are in jeopardy; only Lucia can save them, by means of an expedient marriage.
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   The chaplain reminds Enrico that she is still grieving for her mother, who has recently died, and that the girl is not ready to love. At that, Normanno declares that she has been on fire with love for Edgardo, meeting him every morning ever since he rescued her from a rampaging bull. Enrico is enraged (Larghetto, ‘Cruda, funesta smania').
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   Taking the forged letter, Enrico sends Normanno to welcome Arturo.
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   Enrico reproaches her with folly, but Lucia is numbed at the thought of Edgardo's infidelity.
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   Lucia wants only to die, not to marry; but Enrico stresses the perils of his political situation, from which only an alliance with the Bucklaws can save him.
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   Enrico tells him not to be surprised at Lucia's sad demeanour as she is still grieving for her mother. Arturo questions Enrico about the rumours of Edgardo, but Lucia's entrance saves him from answering.
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   Enrico, Arturo and the guests demand his instant departure. Lucia sinks to her knees, praying for deliverance; but Edgardo throws down his sword, bares his breast and declares he has no more desire to live. The tempo di mezzo of this concerted finale brings back, in Rossinian fashion, the accompanying tune that had underlain the earlier conversation between Arturo and Enrico in the tempo d'attacco.
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   Edgardo's curse (a moment made famous by Duprez) precipitates the D major stretta, which develops in the usual fashion: a thrusting unison for the furious Enrico and his followers, succeeded by a shift in texture dominated by phrases for the soprano and tenor in octaves, leading through an interlude of harmonic restlessness to a reinforced statement of the earlier material, capped by an emphatic coda.
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   Enrico, returning from his encounter with Edgardo, is at first furious at her apparent vindictiveness; but Raimondo points out that her mind has failed.
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   3.iii The graveyard of the Ravenswoods Edgardo appears, early for his appointment to duel with Enrico.

2. 2. tenorissimo! placido domingo as edgardo in donizetti's lucia di lammermoor

   www.tenorissimo.com/domingo/Ro - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/8/1986   Last Visited: 8/18/2006

   Cast (where known) in the sequence: conductor; Lucia (soprano); Edgardo (tenor), Lucia's lover, Master of Ravenswood and an enemy of Enrico Ashton (baritone), Lucia's brother, Lord of the castle of Lammermoor; Raimondo (bass), chaplain at Lammermoor