About the opera
- Run time: 2hrs 15min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Italian
- Subtitles: English, Italian
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Ticket information
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- E-Ticket (Print@home)
Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Music and Libretto
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) was remarkably productive, composing more than 60 operas plus orchestral and chamber music, in a career abbreviated by mental illness and premature death. Donizetti is in many ways the overlooked master of early Italian Romantic opera, and even today only several of his operas are regularly performed: L'elisir d'amore, Anna Bolena, Lucia di Lammermoor, La fille du régiment and Don Pasquale. Yet for more than a decade from 1830, Donizetti was the dominant Italian composer of his day.
Italian poet and scholar Felice Romani (1788 – 1865), wrote over 90 libretti and was considered the finest opera librettist of his day, collaborating most notably with Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. Romani based the plot of L'Elisir d'Amore on another opera, Daniel Auber's Le philtre (1831) with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
Conductor Francesco Ivan Ciampa
Adina Nadine Sierra
Nemorino Xabier Anduaga
Belcore Davide Luciano
Doktor Dulcamara Bryn Terfel
