About the production
- Run time: 2hrs 15min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: ITALIAN
- Subtitles: English, Italian and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan as the beautiful and wealthy Adina leads the cast in Otto Schenk’s production of Donizetti’s charming comedy. Francesco Demuro is Nemorino, Adina’s love-struck admirer, who pours out his heart in the moving aria “Una furtiva lagrima.” The cast also includes baritone Clemens Unterreiner as the swaggering Sergeant Belcore and Ambrogio Maestri as the quack Dr. Dulcamara. Stefano Montanari conducts.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Address:
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
After the performance taxis will drive up to the main entrance
Conductor: Stefano Montanari
Adina: Kristina Mkhitaryan
Nemorino: Francesco Demuro
Belcore: Clemens Unterreiner
Doktor Dulcamara: Ambrogio Maestri
Giannetta: Miriam Kutrowatz
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) was remarkably productive, composing more than 60 operas plus orchestral and chamber music, in a career abbreviated by mental illness and premature death.
Italian poet and scholar Felice Romani (1788 – 1865), wrote over 90 libretti and was considered the finest opera librettist of his day, collaborating most notably with Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. Romani based the plot of L'Elisir d'Amore on another opera, Daniel Auber's Le philtre (1831) with a libretto by Eugène Scribe.
