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2021 / AROP evening / Opera
13 Oct.

L’Elisir d’amore

    Opéra Bastille

    19h30

    Duration
    2h45

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h45
  • 2nd part
    21h15
  • End of the performance
    22h15

“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.

L’Elisir d’amore

Production de 1987 - Otto Schenk

  • Music

    Gaetano Donizetti
    (1797-1848)

  • Conductor
    Giampaolo Bisanti
  • Conductor
    Leonardo Sini

  • 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

Cast

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Sydney
Mancasola

Adina

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Matthew
Polenzani

Nemorino

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Simone
Del Savio

Belcore

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Ambrogio
Maestri

Il Dottor Dulcamara

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Lucrezia
Drei

Giannetta

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