from Act I, Scene I of the Italian opera
Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano
Role: Enrico Ashton, lord and master of Lammermoor
Voice Part: baritone Fach: lyric baritone
Setting: The Lammermoor Castle courtyard, Scotland
Synopsis: Angry that Lucia has had secret romantic meetings with a man whose family is the mortal enemy of the her own Ashton family, Enrico rails that she has betrayed him.