Love funny games and misunderstandings

by Petar PLAMENOV
 

23 March (Friday), 19:00
National Opera and Ballet
Address:
Sofia, 1 Vrabcha Str.
Phone: 02 987 13 66


Conductor Dian Chobanov
Director Vera Nemirov
Scenography Werner Hutter
Choir Violeta Dimitrova

Cast: George Sultanov, Daniel Ostretsov, Cyril Sharbanov, Ilina Mikhailova, Sarah Kobayashi, Sylvia Teneva, Atanas Mladenov, Ivan Kabamitov, Petar Nikolov, Martin Tsonev Buchkov Peter, Peter V. Petrov, Anton Ivanov, Silvana Pravchev, Orchestra and Choir Sofia National Opera and Ballet

"L'elisir d'amore" opera by Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Felice Romani, in two acts and four pictures, with the first performance in the Teatro Della Canobbiana, Milan, May 12, 1832. Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore takes place in Basque country during the early 19th century. It is a melodramma giocoso in two acts. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's Le philtre (1831). L'elisir d'amore is one of the most frequently performed of  all Donizetti's operas, and there are a number of recordings.

It appearsas number 12 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide.It contains the popular aria "Una furtiva lagrima," one of the most famous and often-excerpted arias in all of opera.




Born in 1797 in Bergamo, Gaetano Donizetti was an extremely prolific composer - he wrote 611 works, among which are pieces of chamber, sacred and vocal music, also 71 opera - both seria and buffa. His musical style and his operas, always seeking psychologism and drama, had a major impact on the coming future of Italian opera. With his works Donizetti completed the period of classical bravura-like bel canto and opened up ways for Verdi and Wagner’s operas. His life, weaving from ragged childhood to world fame as if legitimated the flight of the soul within the Romantic epoch. It was a creator of highest class, incorporating into his works incredible grace, melodic artifice and spark.



In L’elisir d’amore, while still relying on the traditions of the 18th century opera buffa, Donizetti created much more than simply a comic opera. The characters of L’elisir d’amore may be coming from the opera buffa world, but composer’s music gives them much more colours. It was probably the first time in a history of opera when a dynamic middle-class theatre was shown on stage - here all characters lost their stereotypical masks embroidered with farce and due to a wise creator who was also a good psychologist they came much closer to reality. Thus what we see on stage is a solution for eternally important problem coloured by rustic idyll, which raises thoughts that are more much deeper than those driven by simple light comedy.

And still, how is it with this elixir of love? This timeless potion of fantasies and desires? Does Donizetti’s opera tell us what is the recipe for this potion? Yes, please come and see!

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