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25/01/2014

Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Live from the Met, Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore

From the New York Metropolitan Opera, Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore, with Anna Netrebko.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Maurizio Benini conducts a performance of Donizetti's opera L'elisir d'amore. With Anna Netrebko, Ramon Vargas and Erwin Schrott.

Tonight's Live from the Met is Donizetti's great comedy, L'elisir d'amore.

Nemorino, a poor peasant, loves Adina, a beautiful landowner, though she torments him with her indifference. But when he hears Adina reading the story of Tristan and Isolde to her workers, he is convinced that a magic potion will help him to gain Adina's love. Luckily, at just the right moment, a travelling quack doctor comes by to prepare him one.

Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff.

Adina.....Anna Netrebko (Soprano)
Giannetta.....Anne-Carolyn Bird (Soprano)
Nemorino.....Ramon Vargas (Tenor)
Belcore.....Nicola Alaimo (Baritone)
Dulcamara.....Erwin Schrott (Bass)
New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
New York Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Maurizio Benini (Conductor).

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