Organization

Singer

Soprano

Emily Pogorelc

Adina

Tenor

Bogdan Volkov

Nemorino

Baritone

Andrè Schuen

Belcore

Bass

Erwin Schrott

Doctor Dulcamara

Jessica Niles

Giannetta

Stage director

David Bösch

Conductor

Evelino Pidò

Lighting designer

Michael Bauer

Costume designer

Falko Herold

Set designer

Patrick Bannwart

Dramaturge

Rainer Karlitschek

Chorus master

Stellario Fagone

Bayerische Staatsoper

Italian

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

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

L'ELISIR D'AMORE

Public

The Elixir of Love

German

English

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

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

Videomagazin zu L'elisir d'amore

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 Donizetti, From (2021/2021), Directed by David Bösch,, Conductor Evelino Pidò, Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany

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