Joan Sutherland first broke through to international success with her role in Lucia Di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti's operatic interpretation of Sir Walter Scott's story of love, treachery and murder. In 1986, in the autumn of her career, the great Sutherland returned to the work which made her name in this Opera Australia production, directed by John Copley, and featuring Richard Bonynge at the orchestra.