Glyndebourne on Tour - L’elisir d’amore
- Composer:
- Donizetti. Conductor: Enrique Mazzola/Thomas Blunt (Nov 13, 16, 20, 23)
- Management:
- Glyndebourne on Tour
- Cast:
- Adriana Kucerova, Peter Auty, Massimo Cavalletti, Luciano Di Pasquale
- Director:
- Annabel Arden
- Design:
- Lez Brotherston
- Lighting:
- Giuseppe de Iorio
- Run time:
- 2hr 30mins (including interval)
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Donizetti may have injected passion and deeply held sentiment into the otherwise stock comic characters of L'elisir d'amore ('The Elixir of Love'), but Glyndebourne on Tour's new production by Annabel Arden seems to be in denial that this is in fact an opera buffa. Sergeant Belcore's trumped-up claims of his allure to women are robbed of their bumptiousness; and the potion-touting quack Dulcamara whips up little excitement among the village folk with his slick promises - no doubt partly obfuscated by the accompanying projected animations. And the encounter between the lovestruck Nemorino and the beautiful Adina, staged during the Prelude, needlessly gives away the game...
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