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Conductor

Felix Korobov

Stage director

Ludmila Naletova

Set designer

Victor Arkhipov

Singer

Soprano

Lilia Gaysina

Adina

Tenor

Vladimir Dmitruk

Nemorino

Baritone

Andrej Baturkin

Belcore

Bass

Roman Ulybin

Doctor Dulcamara

Valeria Zaytseva

Giannetta

Daria Terekhova

Alexey Shishlyaev

Evgenia Afanasieva

Maria Maximchuk

Wolf Gorelik

Lighting designer

Ildar Bederdinov

Chorus master

Stanislav Lykov

Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theatre

Italian

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

Moscow

Russia

Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater

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L'elisir d'amore Donizetti

Public

The Elixir of Love

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Melodrama giocoso, "a merry melodrama" - this is how the genre of the opera L'elisir d'amore was defined by its author Gaetano Donizetti. Lyrical episodes and buffoonery closely coexist in it. It is in the "Potion of Love" that one of the most popular arias in the world sounds - Nemorino's romance Una furtiva lagrima . You will easily remember it if you have seen Nikita Mikhalkov's film "Unfinished Piece for Mechanical Piano". In fairness, let's say that this romance was written long before the composition of the opera. One fine day, Donizetti realized that this music should be given to the protagonist of "Love Potion", and he did not lose. A beautiful melody was the finishing touch in the process of creating a masterpiece of bel canto.

The opera begins with a classic love collision: Nemorino is in love with the village beauty Adina, and she does not reciprocate his feelings. The appearance of the brave sergeant Belcore and the charlatan doctor Dulcamara turns the spring of intrigue. A series of funny misunderstandings leads the heroes of the opera to a happy ending.

The production by Lyudmila Naletova, first performed almost a quarter of a century ago, is a long-liver of the Moscow opera stage. Over the years that have passed since the premiere, several casts have changed, but the audience's love for this cheerful sunny opera remains unchanged.

English

The Elixir of Love by Donizetti, From (2020/2022), Directed by Ludmila Naletova,, Conductor Felix Korobov, Maria Maximchuk, Wolf Gorelik, Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theater, Moscow, Russia

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