L'elisir d'amore — HDVDARTS

Donizetti L'elisir d'amore opera to libretto by Felice Romani. Directed 2021 by Frederic Wake-Walker with assistant director Lorenzo Ponte at Teatro Donizetti Bergamo as part of the Donizetti Opera Festival. Stars Caterina Sala (Adina), Javier Camarena (Nemorino), Florian Sempey (Belcore), Roberto Frontali (Dulcamara), Anaïs Mejias (Giannetta), and Manuel Ferreira (Master of ceremonies). Ricardo Frizza conducts Orchestra Gli Originali and the Coro Donizetti Opera (Chorus Master Fabio Tartari). Fortepiano by Daniela Pellegrino. Puppets by Daniele Cortesi. Set designs by Federica Parolini with assistant set designer Marta Solari; costume designs by Daniela Cernigliaro with assistant costume designer Marta Solari; lighting by Fiammetta Baldisserri with assistant lighting designer Emanuele Agliati. Directed for TV by Matteo Ricchetti. Sound recording by Rino Trasi and Vera Zanotti; editing and post-production by Rino Trasi. Sung in Italian. Released 2022, disc has 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio sound. Grade: NA ‎

Another pandemic production with the chorus wearing medical masks.

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Feb 25. We have just completed one of our most ambitious reviews: Einstein on the Beach opera, the surreal 4 and 1/2 hour cult legend. Kudos, encomiums, and accolades to Opus Arte for giving us this authoritative and weirdly fascinating recording, which we grade A+. Absorbing and learning Einstein is uniquely challenging. We try to help out by providing aids not included in the keepcase materials: an accurate libretto and a list of segments in the opera with correct Opus Arte time stamps. Good luck!

We have some other good grades with an A for the recent Met The Pearl Fishers (Les pêcheurs de perles) and a B- for an earlier The Pearl Fishers from Naples. Also, we recently gave an A- for the new Don Quixote from the Vienna State Ballet.