Organization

Glyndebourne Festival

Singer

Soprano

Ekaterina Siurina

Adina

Conductor

Maurizio Benini

Stage director

Annabel Arden

Set designer

Lez Brotherston

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Giuseppe di Iorio

Choreographer

Leah Hausman

Chorus master

Thomas Blunt

Ainhoa Garmendia

Tenor

Peter Auty

Nemorino

Baritone

Alfredo Daza

Belcore

Bass

Luciano di Pascuale

Doctor Dulcamara

Eliana Pretorian

Giannetta

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne

Italian

L'elisir d'amore -  (The Elixir of Love)

Lewes

United Kingdom

Ekaterina Siurina, Peter Auty and Alfredo Daza in a playful and colorful version of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'amore.

A pastoral romance between Adina, the rich and gorgeous landowner, and Nemorino, a simple peasant, in love with Adina, L'Elisir d'amore sets Tristan and Iseult's love potion at the center of the action.

Donizetti wrote dozens of operas, but he is mostly famous today for five works that are regularly played in the greatest opera theatres around the world. All five were composed within ten years: L'Elisir d'amore (1832), Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), La Fille du régiment (1840), La Favorite (1840) and Don Pasquale (1843). Heir of Rossini, Donizetti is at the same time a "children of the century," a Romantic poet whose taste for the belcanto made him a rival of another composer from Catania, Belini. Like him, Donizetti provided the lyric repertoire with such beautiful arias as the Una furtiva lagrima, that can be heard in L'Elisir d'amore.

Acclaimed Italian conductor Maurizio Benini makes his Glyndebourne debut in Donizetti’s intoxicating and deeply touching opera, whose fast-moving comic story unfolds the romantic rivalry between penniless farmhand and bumptious soldier, both vying for the love of Adina. Will the bogus Dr. Dulcamara’s potion - the elixir of love - help farmhand Nemorino win her heart? Peter Auty takes the role of Nemorino with Ekaterina Siurina as Adina.

L'elisir d'amore (Donizetti), 2009
Donizetti’s sun-drenched, small-town comedy makes a joyful return in Annabel Arden’s production.

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