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Search Amazon for L'elisir d'amore items Search for tickets at TicketmasterAnnabel Arden's likeable production of Donizetti's warm-hearted comedy started life on the Glyndebourne Tour in 2007 and here enters the festival proper. It can be warmly welcomed. Though Lez Brotherston's otherwise traditional set looks as if half of it went missing on the way from the warehouse, what Arden does is to take the comedy seriously, allowing us a deeper engagement than usual with the shy peasant Nemorino and his initially one-sided affair with the sophisticated Adina, which only blossoms into full romance late in the day. It is a beautifully achieved piece of work...
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