Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Ileana Cotrubas (Adina), Plácido Domingo (Nemorino), Geraint Evans (Dulcamara), Ingvar Wixell (Belcore), Lillian Watson (Giannetta)
Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royle Opera House‚ Covent Garden, Sir John Pritchard
Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore
Ileana Cotrubas (Adina), Plácido Domingo (Nemorino), Geraint Evans (Dulcamara), Ingvar Wixell (Belcore), Lillian Watson (Giannetta)
Orchestra And Chorus Of The Royle Opera House‚ Covent Garden, Sir John Pritchard
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Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2018, First Choice
About
L’elisir d’amore was the most frequently performed of Donizetti’s 65 operas during his lifetime and that popularity endures today. Donizetti believed that pathos was an essential element of comedy and in his witty and charming story of the love of the peasant
Nemorino for Adina, a farm owner, perfectly demonstrates this in Nemorino’s famous aria “Una furtiva lagrima.
Release includes a booklet with a three language synopsis [English / French / German], full cast list and detailed track list.
Contents and tracklist
- Plácido Domingo (tenor), The Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Robin Stapleton (chorus master), Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ileana Cotrubas (soprano), Chorus Of The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Ingvar Wixell (vocal), Geraint Evans (vocal), Lilian Watson (vocal)
- Covent Garden Opera Chorus, Covent Garden Opera Orchestra
- Sir John Pritchard
