Lucia di Lammermoor is a dramma tragico (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvatore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto based upon Sir Walter Scott's historical novel The Bride of Lammermoor. Today, it remains one of the leading bel canto operas. The opera premiered on September 26, 1835 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. Donizetti revised the score for a French version which debuted on August 6, 1839 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris.

The French version was the first to be performed in the United States on December 28, 1841 in New Orleans (the original version came to the U.S. several months later, also to New Orleans).