Organization

Emmanuel Villaume

Stage director

David Bösch

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Costume designer

Falko Herold

Set designer

Patrick Bannwart

Dramaturge

Rainer Karlitschek

Chorus master

Stellario Fagone

Conductor

Singer

Soprano

Pretty Yende

Adina

Tenor

Javier Camarena

Nemorino

Baritone

Konstantin Krimmel

Belcore

Bass

Ambrogio Maestri

Doctor Dulcamara

Eirin Rognerud

Giannetta

Bayerische Staatsoper

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

Italian

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

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

L'ELISIR D'AMORE

Public

The Elixir of Love

German

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The director David Bösch on the production of Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore

Videomagazin zu L'elisir d'amore

L'ELISIR D'AMORE: Pretty Yende (Adina), choir of the Bavarian State Opera

L'ELISIR D'AMORE: Pretty Yende (Adina)

The dreary life in the small anacreontic village that the composer Gaetano Donizetti and his librettist Felice Romani draw doesn't offer much variety - the only perspective outside the small world seems to be the illusion of a heroic soldier's life, even if that could mean death.

But what a bottle of Bordeaux can do: The intimidated Nemorino really turns on his ad for Adina when he drinks the wine sold by the miracle doctor Dulcamara as a love elixir. And the potion works immediately, Nemorino becomes a daredevil and would rather die in the war than have his beloved Adina in the hands of the soldier Belcore. The ambitious Adina cannot resist the charm of the daring Nemorino - and even Dulcamara is amazed at the energy and art of metamorphosis his deception unleashes: the sad world full of wistful longing is suddenly full of color and fantasy.

And the viewer is left with hope that the music with all its poetry could transform him too.

The Elixir of Love by Gaetano Donizetti, From (2024/2024), Directed by David Bösch,, Conductor Emmanuel Villaume

Credits (Cast & Crew)

Bayerische Staatsoper

David Bösch

Emmanuel Villaume

Cast

Pretty Yende

Javier Camarena

Konstantin Krimmel

Ambrogio Maestri

Eirin Rognerud

Crew

Michael Bauer

Falko Herold

Patrick Bannwart

Rainer Karlitschek

Stellario Fagone

Ensemble

Bayerisches Staatsorchester

Bayerischer Staatsopernchor

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