[The only thing I DON'T like about this rendition is the tendency on the part of some opera directors to "update" the staging and costumes of operas set in historical eras. As I recall, in the Seattle Opera production, the men were wearing kilts. Most appropriate.]

Kilts are no more appropriate for the early-modern Scottish Lowlands than they are for the Tokyo subway.

The Lammermuirs are a few miles from where I live and I can get there on a local bus. I've never seen anyone on those buses in a kilt and I wouldn't have been any more likely to if that bus had been running in Donizetti's time or in the period Scott's novel is set.