At The Opera, Donizetti: The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) - April 6, 2019
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L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) 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 philter (1831). The opera premiered on May 12, 1832 at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan.
Cast:
Adina – Kathleen Battle
Nemorino – Luciano Pavarotti
Belcore – Leo Nucci
Dulcamare – Enzo Dara
MET Opera Orchestra and Chorus
DG - 1990
8:00 p.m.
Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera Intemezzo
Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony; Ondrej Lenard, conductor
8:03 p.m.
Luciano Pavarotti
Gaetano Donizetti
L'Elisir d'Amore
9:02 p.m.
Renata Tebaldi Mario del Monaco
Puccini
Manon Lescaut: Tu Tu amore tu
Santa Cecilia of Rome; Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, conductor Renata Tebaldi and Mario del Monaco
9:09 p.m.
Ingvar Wixell
Verdi
Rigoletto- Cortigiani
n/a; Fausto Cleva, conductor Ingvar Wixell
9:17 p.m.
Lisa Della Casa / Rise Stevens / Hilde Guden
Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier: Act III, Final trio and duet - LIVE
MET Orchestra; Rudolf Kemp, conductor Lisa Della Casa / Rise Stevens / Hilde Guden
9:31 p.m.
Lina Bruna Rasa
Mascagni
Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: Voi lo sapete, o mamma
; Mascagni, conductor
9:37 p.m.
Giuseppe Di Stefano
Cesare Andrea Bixio and others
Italian songs
Giuseppe Di Stefano
9:41 p.m.
George London / Valerie Bak
TchTchaikovsky
Act 3 Duet Eugene Onegin
9:50 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Du Pavre Seul Ami Fidèle
9:55 p.m.
Nicolai Gedda
Je Crois Entendre Encore
9:58 p.m.
James King
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die Tote Stadt Duet
; Götz Friedrich, conductor
