More Delightful Donizetti at the Met: ‘L’Elisir d‘Amore’

This season, the Metropolitan Opera has been performing a number of the works of Gaetano Donizetti and now the entertaining “L‘Elisir d’Amore” has arrived.
More Delightful Donizetti at the Met: ‘L’Elisir d‘Amore’
Vittorio Grigolo as Nemorino and Aleksandra Kurzak as Adina in Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore. Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
Barry Bassis
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NEW YORK—This season, the Metropolitan Opera has been performing a number of the works of Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848): the dramatic “Three Queens” trilogy and two of his most popular comic operas. Recently, “Don Pasquale” opened to charm audiences, and now the equally entertaining “L‘Elisir d’Amore” (“The Elixir of Love”) has arrived.

Bartlett Sher’s production opened the Met season in 2012. The new cast is just as winning as the earlier one.

Vittorio Grigolo as Nemorino and Aleksandra Kurzak as Adina in Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore." (Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera)
Vittorio Grigolo as Nemorino and Aleksandra Kurzak as Adina in Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'Amore." Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera
Barry Bassis
Barry Bassis
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Barry has been a music, theater, and travel writer for over a decade for various publications, including Epoch Times. He is a voting member of the Drama Desk and the Outer Critics Circle, two organizations of theater critics that give awards at the end of each season. He has also been a member of NATJA (North American Travel Journalists Association)
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