L’Elisir d’amore is, without a doubt, Donizetti’s comic masterpiece. Laurent Pelly’s playful production transposes this melodrama giocoso into the Italy of the 1960s – complete with bales of hay and Vespas. Don't miss out and book your tickets now!
A jewel in opera buffa's crown, Gaetano Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore strikes a fine balance between farce and sentimental intrigue in tender and melancholy tones. Giacomo Sagripanti directs a team of virtuoso singers led by Sidney Mancasola and, alternating with Matthew Polenzani, Pene Pati, in a Laurent Pelly's staging filled with lightness, freshness and poetry.
Melodramma Giocoso in two acts (1832)
After Eugène Scribe's Le Philtre based on Auber
Music:
Gaetano Donizetti - (1797-1848)
Libretto:
Felice Romani
Conductor:
Giampaolo Bisanti - (28 sept. > 30 oct.)
Leonardo Sini - (2, 9 nov.)
Director:
Laurent Pelly
Costume design:
Laurent Pelly
Set design:
Chantal Thomas
Lighting design:
Joël Adam
Dramaturgy:
Agathe Mélinand
Chorus master:
Alessandro Di Stefano
Adina:
Sydney Mancasola
Nemorino:
Matthew Polenzani
(28 Sept. > 21 Oct.)
Pene Pati
(24 Oct. > 9 Nov.)
Belcore:
Simone Del Savio
Il Dottor Dulcamara:
Carlo Lepore
(28 Sept. > 9 Oct.)
Ambrogio Maestri
(13 Oct. > 9 Nov.)
Giannetta:
Lucrezia Drei