L’Elisir d’amore

Production de 1987 - Otto Schenk

• Conductor

  Giampaolo Bisanti; Leonardo Sini

• Music

  Gaetano Donizetti
  (1797-1848)

• Libretto

  Felice Romani

• Director

  Laurent Pelly

• Costume design

  Laurent Pelly

• Set design

  Chantal Thomas

• Lighting design

  Joël Adam

• Dramaturgy

  Agathe Mélinand

• Chorus master

  Alessandro Di Stefano

“I am obliged to set a libretto to music within fourteen days. I give you one week to prepare it for me. We shall see which of the two of us has the most courage.” Donizetti’s instructions to his librettist Romani signalled the beginning of the composition of L’Elisir d’amore, an opera that is, without a doubt, the Italian composer’s comic masterpiece. Laurent Pelly’s playful production transposes this melodramma giocoso into the Italy of the 1960s – complete with bales of hay and Vespas. The staging is a deft combination of fantasy and poetry, from the roaring arrival of Doctor Dulcamara to Nemorino’s legendary romance to Adina. This production of the quintessential bel canto opera has become a Paris Opera classic that cannot be missed.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction avec le Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Londres

L’Elisir d’amore

Production de 1987 - Otto Schenk

• Adina

  Sydney Mancasola

• Nemorino

  Matthew Polenzani

• Belcore

  Simone Del Savio

• Il Dottor Dulcamara

  Ambrogio Maestri

• Giannetta

  Lucrezia Drei