Donizetti: L' Elisir d'amore|Scotto, Bergonzi, Taddei - Gavezzani (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino 1967)

L' Elisir d'amore
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Librettist: Felice Romani
Premiere: 12 May 1832, Milan (Teatro Canobbiana)
Language: Italian
Subtitles: Italian, English (Click on CC)
Synopsis: https://www.opera-arias.com/donizetti/l'elisir-d'amore/synopsis/

Adina - Renata Scotto
Nemorino - Carlo Bergonzi
Dulcamara - Carlo Cava
Belcore - Giuseppe Taddei
Giannetta - Renza Jotti

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra & Chorus
Maestro Concertatore e Direttore: Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Maestro del Coro: Adolfo Fanfani
Stage Director: Isabella Quarantotti De Filippo
rec. 1967

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a melodramma giocoso (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's Le philtre (1831). The opera premiered on 12 May 1832 at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan.

Written in haste in a six-week period, L'elisir d'amore was the most often performed opera in Italy between 1838 and 1848 and has remained continually in the international opera repertory. Today it is one of the most frequently performed of all Donizetti's operas. The central narrative theme, the triumph of sincerity, is essential to the Romantic outlook; musically, in Donizetti's hands, the treatment became more romantic than in the Auber version: L'elisir d'amore features three big duets between the tenor and soprano.

The premiere of L'elisir d'amore took place at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan, on 12 May 1832. Today, the opera is part of the standard repertory. Enrico Caruso played in the role of Nemorino for the first time in February 1901 at La Scala with the conductor Arturo Toscanini. The audience reception caused Caruso and the orchestra to repeat "Una furtiva lagrima" three times.