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Who wrote the libretto for Lucia di Lammermoor?
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Gaetano Donizetti
Gaetano Donizetti, portrait by Giovanni Carnevali; in the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo, Italy.
The libretto for Gaetano Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) was written by Salvatore Cammarano. The work was derived from the 1819 novel The Bride of Lammermoor by Sir Walter Scott.1