Tag Archives: L’Elisir d’amore
Finale 31 – L’Elisir d’Amore Act 1
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 18th November 2021Donizetti’s comic opera L’Elisir d’Amore has been performed frequently throughout the opera world since its premiere in 1832. The Met has done it 302 times. Despite its ubiquity it sometimes seems like a tenor aria in search of an opera so popular is ‘Una furtiva lagrima’. That this search is typically successful speaks to the…
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L’Elisir d’Amore in HD – 2018
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 10th February 2018Donizetti’s approach to comic opera is the opposite of Rossini’s. Rossini takes no prisoners. Everybody in his buffa operas has a tenuous connection to sanity reflecting the composers view that the entire world is mad. Donizetti, on the other hand, is more forgiving and offers characters who have redeeming attributes. The difference between the two…
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