The final production of San Francisco Opera’s 2023 Fall Season marks the return Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love (L’Elisir d’Amore) for a six-performance run at the War Memorial Opera House ...
Festival Opera will continue its 35th anniversary season with Gaetano Donizetti's popular romantic comedy, The Elixir of Love, presenting two outdoor public performances scheduled for Thursday, July ...
There’s one quartet in The Elixir of Love, and it comes at the opera’s most critical moment, late in Act II. The village girls have just heard that Nemorino has inherited a fortune, and they crowd ...
The first time I saw an opera, I was sitting in the far rear of balcony seating, watching Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” unfold entirely in Italian. I did not speak Italian. I was too far ...
COLUMBIA — A half-hour before dress rehearsal, opera director Tiffany Blake talked with soprano Emily Bennett about her character and gave some last-minute suggestions on body language. Even the ...
Beware the charismatic charlatan. If someone promises to deliver everything on your wish list, it’s probably too good to be true. Such a character is Dulcamara in Gaetano Donizetti’s opera, “The ...
The San Francisco Opera’s rendition of Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” brings the comic opera out of the 1800s and into the “La Dolce Vita” period of the 1950s. Temperatures may be cooling in ...
It’s like “Top Chef” or “The Great British Bake Off,” but with opera. For the biennial Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize, directors have about a month to form design teams — set, lighting, ...
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