Performances

L'elisir d'amore

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

(...) The story about how The Elixir of Love was written confirms that Donizetti was capable of writing pages and pages of musical score in a very short period of time. He was commissioned by a Milan theatre’s impresario, Alessandro Lanari, to adapt one of his operas in just two weeks, in time for the beginning of the season. Donizetti took to work and accomplished “the mission impossible” and instead of adapting an already finished opera, he wrote a new one in cooperation with Felice Romani, famous librettist of the time, based on the text by Eugene Scribe. The opera triumphed at the premiere partly owing to superb singers who greatly contributed to the opera’s success.
(…) Although the music seems easy and simple, the opera demands experienced singers, especially today when modern opera stage directing requires complex performing tasks from singers.

Danica Stipanović