But, arguably like Wagner’s, the potion is fake (red wine, in this case, probably throat lotion in Wagner’s), and Nemorino gets his girl because he unknowingly inherits a fortune, the village girls ...

Matthew Polenzani as Nemorino sings the famous aria "Una Furtiva Lagrima. Season 12 of Great Performances at the Met continues Sunday, April 29 at 12:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) with ...

Opera Company of Middlebury will present “L’elisir d’amore,” in a semi-staged concert version with orchestra and sung in the original Italian with English supertitles, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a treasure from Met broadcast history, going back 50 years to the day: Donizetti’s “L’Elisir d’Amore ...

Irish National Opera is closing its season with six nights – four in Dublin plus one each in Wexford and Cork – of comic opera, a genre in which the seven-year-old company already has a really good ...

Recorded live at Glyndebourne in June 1962, this performance is worth hearing above all for Alva’s exemplary Nemorino and the young Freni’s heart-winning Adina – already distinctive in timbre, ...

If the thought of attending a Donizetti opera performed entirely in Italian is intimidating, fear not: The ASU Lyric Opera Theatre's production of “L'elisir d'amore” aims to make the composer's work ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The elixir that opera companies love in the run-up to Christmas is a show that rings the tills, promising “a ...

Taking over the role of the quack Dulcamara in this third revival of Laurent Pelly’s keenly observed production of Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, Bryn Terfel relishes his appearance as a greasy spiv.

In OperaUpClose’s production of L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love), the King’s Head Theatre welcomes us with an astro turf floor and stage walls covered in pink, orange and yellow flowers and a ...

Donizetti's popular 1832 comic opera "L'elisir d'amore" is set in a small Italian village -- but that's not where it takes place in Jonathan Miller's new production at New York City Opera. Ponytails, ...