Opera
L’elisir d’amore
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Donizetti's vibrant opera from the New York Met, starring Kathleen Battle and Luciano Pavarotti
Cast
Kathleen Battle
Luciano Pavarotti
Enzo Dara
Juan Pons
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
James Levine (conductor)
Gaetano Donizetti's ever-popular opera buffa which centres around the poor young peasant, Nemorino, and his apparently hopeless love for Adina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Fraught with comic confusion, the opera's humour is chiefly derived from the character of Dr. Dulcamara, purveyor of snake oil and other patent medicines, who sells Nemorino a bottle of wine on the pretext that it is a love potion. (Well, red wine is a kind of love potion, albeit one with an unpredictable efficacy.)
Luciano Pavarotti sparkles as Nemorino; one of his favourite roles, and one which suits his voice very well; Kathleen Battle is a a dazzlingly youthful and capricious Adina, while James Levine keeps the effervescent production together with trademark zest.
Kathleen Battle
Luciano Pavarotti
Enzo Dara
Juan Pons
Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra
James Levine (conductor)
Gaetano Donizetti's ever-popular opera buffa which centres around the poor young peasant, Nemorino, and his apparently hopeless love for Adina, the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Fraught with comic confusion, the opera's humour is chiefly derived from the character of Dr. Dulcamara, purveyor of snake oil and other patent medicines, who sells Nemorino a bottle of wine on the pretext that it is a love potion. (Well, red wine is a kind of love potion, albeit one with an unpredictable efficacy.)
Luciano Pavarotti sparkles as Nemorino; one of his favourite roles, and one which suits his voice very well; Kathleen Battle is a a dazzlingly youthful and capricious Adina, while James Levine keeps the effervescent production together with trademark zest.
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Lennart Forsman
Wed 27 July 2011, 19:12
These pages are really worthless, but I suppose it doesn’t make any differenece if I tell you… I have found that most web-sites in the UK are extremely ill run. Today I wanted the cast of the production of L’elisir d’amore from Glynebourne, and find only an old one with Battle and Pavarotti on these pages.
Yesterday The Coronation of Popea was sent, and it was nowhere to be found on these pages here. You also say that you have no information about Das Ring by Wagner, which you showed only some months ago and repeatedly. Bad and bad and bad again. And you can stop sending me all those glossy advertisments that only take up space in my mail-box. Thank you.
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