Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) wrote one of opera’s most famous insanity scenes in Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel The Bride of Lammermoor. He himself later went mad due to syphilis and spent the last years of his life in an insane asylum. And I guess that’s what they call ironic.
(Source: facts.randomhistory.com)
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'Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.' And that's why I love it.
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