Ah, Lucia - now that is precisely one of the characters whom I meant earlier when I referred to women with 'victim' writ large upon the forehead when they walk onto the grand opera stage. Even allows herself to be bossed about by her brother! Cio-Cio San (Butterfly) is another; naive to the point of stupidity and ends up destroying herself. Incidentally, that opera was partly based upon the experiences of a Scot, Thomas Glpver, who visited 19th century Japan, not that he betrayed a Japanese girl, of course! Sidney Jones' musical play/operetta was also one of the inspirations for the Puccini work; as I prefer to leave the theatre laughing rather than weeping, I know which I would prefer to see!.

Back to Lucia; Mr Firth, it is quite true what Mr Campin (and I think a few others) says about the inappropriateness of 20th-century-type wedding kilts for an opera set in 17th/18th century Borders; in fact the wearing of tartan was banned for about a quarter of the 18th century, post-Culloden. That's also why many Scots cringe at the portrayal of Scotland in Brigadoon; once every hundred years is too frequent!

Also, referring to an even earlier post, the dancer Moira Shearer was certainly not English, but a Scot born in Dunfermline.