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Kolozsvári Magyar Opera

Stage director

András Kürthy

Conductor

Zsolt Jankó

Costume designer

Márta Pilinyi

Set designer

László Székely

Choreographer

Adrian Mureșan

Singer

Tenor

Dobrița Roland

Nemorino

Bass

Zoltán Nagy

Doctor Dulcamara

Soprano

Renáta Gebe-Fügi

Adina

Baritone

Ottó Peti Tamás

Belcore

Lívia Antal

Giannetta

Silent

Veress Laszló

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

Cluj-Napoca

Romania

L'elisir d'amore (reduction) Donizetti

Public

The Elixir of Love

Delfina Gago

Approved

"Gaetano Donizetti's  comedy L'Elisir d'amore  ( The Elixir of Love ) was presented 180 years ago, on May 12, 1832, in Milan, at the Teatro della Cannobbiana. At that time, Rossini had already retired from composing stage music for three years (since the premiere of Tell Vilmos in 1829); Bellini dies three years later, after writing The Puritans, in 1835; Verdi's first stage work, the opera Oberto, had to wait another seven years. Donizetti was 35 years old at the time, in the middle of his career, at the beginning of his most successful creative period, fourteen years before his theatrical debut and twelve years before the revision of his last opera. Among his main works, Boleyn's Anna was already completed, but later he only composed, for example, Lucrezia Borgia, Lucia Lammermoor, Maria Stuart, and his other famous comedy operas, The Daughter of the Regiment and Don Pasquale.

The  Love Potion,  however, also stands out from this period, but not only from this period, and not only from its author: the masterpiece is one of the most loved and most played pieces in the entire history of opera. What is the reason why it is still popular after 180 years, and is loved by stage managers and audiences alike? Why, for example, did the other three Donizetti works presented in the same year (Fausta; Ugo, conte di Parigi and Sancia di Castiglia) not become a similar success?

What is indispensable for really good operas: you need a witty, well-paced text book. Therefore, the praise goes to the librettist of the Potion, Felice Romani (1788-1865). The Genoese librettist and musicologist revised and translated Le philtre, written in 1831 by the famous French dramatist and librettist Eugène Scribe, in just seven days - Donizetti had another seven days to get the music ready in time for the show. The French author's libretto was originally written for Daniel Auber - his work was presented in Paris in 1831, but today it is perhaps only mentioned because it has a common source with the Love Potion."


András Ádám Kürthy, director

 

Gaetano Donizetti

Love potion

Opera in two acts

The text was written by Felice Romani based on Eugène Scribe's play Le Philtre

 

Adina
Renata Gebe-Fügi (debut)
Nemorino
Dobrița Roland (debut)
Belcore, Sergeant
Peti Tamás Otto
Dulcamara, miracle doctor
Zoltán Nagy
Giannetta, peasant girl
Antal Livia
Notary
László Veress
Ginepra
Viorica Barak-Bogoi
Martino
Márton Tóth
Tony
Zsombor Réty
Set designer
László Székely
Costume designer
Marta Pilinyi
Choreographer
Muresan Adrian
Faculty director
Kulcsár Szabolcs
Concertmaster
Sándor Barabás
Endre Ferenczi
Tutor
Zoltán Horváth
Great Gergő
Help
Julia Kostyak
Kondrat Bea
Supervisor
Pál Kincső
Collaborator of the director and choreographer
Cîmpean Rareş Arcadie
Conducting
Zsolt Jankó
Director
András Kürthy

English

The Elixir of Love by Donizetti, From (2023/2023), Directed by András Kürthy,, Conductor Zsolt Jankó

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