Artist

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Companhia all’Opera

Stage director

Pedro Ribeiro

Conductor

Goncalo Carvalho Vasquez

Lighting designer

Nuno Almeida

Costume designer

Inês Mariana Moitas

Set designer

Ana Gormicho

Pianist

Singer

Tenor

André Lacerda

Nemorino

Soprano

Sara Braga Simões

Adina

Baritone

Job Tomé

Belcore

Bass

André Henriques

Doctor Dulcamara

Paulina Sá Machado

Giannetta

Italian

Gregorio Chávez Coutiño

L’Elisir d’Amore

Matosinhos Municipality

Portugal

Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery

L’Elisir d’Amore: L'elisir d'amore Donizetti

Public

The Elixir of Love

Portuguese

Approved

O Elixir do Amor (L'elisir d'amore')de Donizetti por Companhia all'OperaAndré Lacerda (Nemorino), Sara Braga Simões (Adina), Job Tomé (Belcore), André Henriq...

In this second production for All’Opera I looked for a cross between the characters of L’Elisir and the city of Matosinhos, Portugal. It was during a walk back home that I found some old black and white pictures displayed on the windows of the photography shop – “Foto Mar”. The soldiers with guitars singing alongside fishmongers in such tender combination of sea – nostalgia – innocence, was the light-bulb moment to rip-off the story from to Italians and turn it Portuguese. The right time to pile up these characters and make them live again had to be 1961. Portugal was deep in Salazar’s dictatorship, the homeland adulation; the overseas war in the colonies were an oncoming duty; television was finally being broadcast across the north of the country; In Matosinhos there was a demographic explosion, but above all, there was still an innocence in falling in love – be it in the need to love in a haste (because of the deaths that the war would bring) or the need to flee the dictatorial families. I didn’t live during that time, but I used the best library I have on the subject – my family.

English

L’Elisir d’Amore by Donizetti, From (2019/2019), Directed by Pedro Ribeiro,, Conductor Goncalo Carvalho Vasquez, Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery, Matosinhos Municipality, Portugal

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