L’ELISIR D’AMORE
Gaetano Donizetti's L’Elisir d’Amore (The Elixir of Love)
Fri. Nov. 20, 8pm - For tickets click here
Trinity-on-Main Performance Center, New Britain
Sat. Nov. 28, 7:30pm - For tickets click here
The Garde Arts Center, New London
Sat. Dec. 5, 7:30pm - For tickets click here
Middletown High School
Sat. Dec. 12, 8pm - For tickets click here
The Palace Theater, Waterbury
Conductor - Adrian Sylveen Mackiewicz
Director - Michael Philip Davis
Set Designer - Christopher Podkowiak
Chorus Master - Pawel Jura
Technical Director - Peter Strand
Nemorino - Sean Fallen
Adina - Jurate Svedaite
Dulcamara - Laurentiu Rotaru
Belcore - Maksim Ivanov
Gianetta - Elizabeth Kinder
One of the most performed bel canto operas, Elisir is a celebration of innocence and true love triumphing amid chicanery and bluster. Set in a nineteenth century Italian village, it is the story of the bumbling Nemorino, who is madly in love with Adina, a beautiful landowner, who gets engaged to the self-absorbed sergeant Belcore to spite him. When Dulcamara, a traveling charlatan, comes to town, Nemorino purchases a love potion, convinced it will make Adina fall in love with him, when in reality it is a simple bottle of wine. The elixir is not successful in winning Adina, so Nemorino joins the army and uses his signing bonus to purchase even more. When Adina discovers the sacrifice he made for her, she confesses her love for him, breaks off her engagement with Belcore and agrees to marry Nemorino. In composing Elisir, Donizetti displayed his flair for tuneful melodies and for molding his music into humorous characterizations, and Nemorino’s aria “Una furtive lagrima” has long been a favorite of many famous tenors, including the great Enrico Caruso, Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo
Returning to star as Nemorino is lyric tenor, Sean Fallen, a veteran of New York City Opera and other leading companies, who last appeared with CLO as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. Following her critically acclaimed Violetta in CLO’s La Traviata this spring, radiant Lithuanian soprano Jurate Svedaite shows her comedic side as Adina. Last season’s Eugene Onegin, dynamic Russian baritone, Maksim Ivanov, stars as the pompous Belcore, while rounding out this stellar cast is crowd-favorite bass, Laurentiu Rotaru, who most recently delighted CLO audiences as Prince Gremin in Eugene Onegin. This productionwill be directed by nationally recognized stage director, Michael Philip Davis, and will be conducted by CLO’s General and Artistic Director, Adrian Sylveen Mackiewicz. The opera will be fully staged with orchestra, 24-voice chorus and English supertitles above the stage.
To purchase tickets for the Garde performance, click here: https://tickets.gardearts.org/loader.asp?target=show.asp?shcode=913
For other performances:
Fri. Nov. 20, 8pm - Trinity-on-Main Performance Center, New Britain. For tickets click here
Sat. Dec. 5, 7:30pm - Middletown High School. For tickets click here
Sat. Dec. 12, 8pm - The Palace Theater, Waterbury. For tickets click here
All performances are co-presented with CLO's resident orchestra, the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra.
