Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

…Laurent Pelly's staging is efficient and both narrative and characterisation are ably charted. The best performance comes from conductor Edward Gardner, who cuts a spirited dash through the... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2008, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Oct 2008
Catalogue No: BAC040
Label: Bel Air Classiques

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Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore

Heidi Grant Murphy (Adina), Ambrogio Maestri (Dulcamara), Laurent Naouri (Belcore, Paul Groves (Nemorino) & Aleksandra Zamojska (Giannetta)
Orchestre et Choeurs de l'Opéra de Paris
Edward Gardner

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L'elisir d'amore : opera in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, libretto by Felice Romani after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Auber's Le philtre (1831), premièred at the Teatro della Canobbiana, Milan on May 12, 1832 and one of the most frequently performed of all Donizetti's operas.

"Edward Gardner conducted with outstanding imagination and authority" The Times, 12th August 2008, BBC Proms 2008

"This concert performance was the jewel in the crown of the Barbican's Mostly Mozart Festival, with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, conducted by Edward Gardner, the most demanding and perceptive of musical stage-managers." The Times [Clemenza di Tito, the Barbican, July 2008]

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December 2008

…Laurent Pelly's staging is efficient and both narrative and characterisation are ably charted. The best performance comes from conductor Edward Gardner, who cuts a spirited dash through the sparkling score.

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