GAETANO DONIZETTI

THE ELIXIR OF LOVE

New production

Opera in two acts
Libretto by Felice Romani,
According to the booklet written by Eugène Scribe for The potion (1831), Opéra-Comique of Daniel François Auber spirit
Creation at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan on 12 may 1832

Sung in Italian, surtitled in french

The Elisir D'amore of Donizetti is one of the most famous operas of the XIX^e century. Œuvre accessible and bubbly, it is ideal to take its first steps to the opera.

Following a disclaimer in its programming, the Director of the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan has quickly need to an opera. Felice Romani wrote then a booklet in a week (faithful layer of a french Opera Comique created eleven months earlier) and Gaetano Donizetti composed the music in barely a month. Since its creation, the opera inflamed the Italy, soon Europe and even the new world. Major piece of The Elisir D'amore , Donizetti operas seventy combines with a plot light and witty, an irresistible score featuring the traditional characters of the "commedia dell'arte" Italian, the lover, the Coquette, the swaggering soldier and the charlatan.

The shy Nemorino can no longer humiliations that inflicts the beautiful Adina, which he is in love. He believes the solution with an "elixir of love" which Dulcamara, the merchant Street, he has praised the merits... Where we discover the unexpected virtues of a simple bottle of Bordeaux wine!

Music Director Roland Böer
Stage Director, scenery and lights Eric Knight
Costumes Françoise Raybaud-Pace
Video Gabriel Grinda

Adina Gabrielle Philiponet
Forgetting Aude Fabre
Nemorino Davide Giusti
Belcore Philippe Nicolas Martin
Dulcamara Marc Barrard

Philharmonic Orchestra of Nice
Choir of the Opera de Nice

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