Photo by Mishkin
Caruso as Edgardo in “Lucia di Lammermoor”
Photo copyright, 1916, by Victor Georg
Galli-Curci as Lucia in “Lucia di Lammermoor”
The greatest ensemble number in Italian opera, the sextet, has begun. Edgardo: "Chi mi frena in tal momento? Chi troncò dell'ire il corso?" (What restrains me at this moment? Why my sword do I not straightway draw?):
