Donizetti: L’Elisir d’Amore (DVD) – Javier Camarena, Caterina Sala
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Donizetti: L’Elisir d’Amore (DVD) – Javier Camarena, Caterina Sala
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Artists: Javier Camarena, Caterina Sala, Florian Sempey, Roberto Frontali, Anaïs Mejías, Manuel Ferreira, Orchestra Gli Originale, Coro Donizetti Opera
Conductor: Riccardo Frizza
Director: Frederic Wake-Walker
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 / PCM 2.0
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English, French, German, Japanese, Korean
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Dynamic
Release Date: November 18, 2022
Run Time: 142 minutes
Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is a melodrama giocoso in two acts and has remained one of the world’s most popular and often performed operas. Nemorino is in love with Adina, who is indifferent, but eventually falls for him, helped by the huckster Dr. Dulcamara’s elixir (in reality, cheap red wine).
This performance restores cuts and is heard in full, as Donizetti intended, played on original instruments of the time at the original pitch. This allows one to hear more fully how he turned a traditional opera buffa into a masterpiece of characterization and theatrical power.
History
L’Elisir d’Amore premiered at Milan’s Teatro Cannobiana in 1832. The opera is quintessential Donizetti, and one of the composer’s greatest popular successes. Nemorino, a poor peasant is in love with Adina, a wealthy landowner. Unable to summon the courage to express his feelings, he buys a bottle of special elixir from a traveling medicine man. Unbeknownst to Nemorino, the bottle holds nothing but Bordeaux wine, but the ‘Elisir’ works some magic nevertheless.
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