Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore

Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore
by John Copley

Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore
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Actor: Enzo Dara, James Levine, Juan Pons, Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti
Director: John Copley
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; German (Subtitled); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Digital Sound, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled, Surround Sound
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Deutsche Grammophon

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Movie Review: L'Elisir d'Amore
Summary: 4 Stars

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This opera, like most,has a silly love story, but the music is spectacular, especially Pavarotti's aria, "Una Furtiva Lagrima." That song alone makes this a worthwhile purchase.

Summary of Donizetti - L'Elisir d'Amore

It would be hard to imagine a better performance of Donizetti's comic masterpiece. If there was one role that ideally suited Luciano Pavarotti's voice and stage personality, it was Nemorino, the impoverished and not-very-bright peasant who worships the village's prettiest and richest young woman from a distance, is swindled by a traveling vendor of "miracle" medicines, but wins her hand by dumb luck. The story has comedy, pathos, and a put-down of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (or at least the Tristan story) written long before Wagner composed it.

Kathleen Battle is not only a wonderful singer and convincing actress; as Adina, she is pretty enough to make Nemorino's infatuation totally credible. Juan Pons struts convincingly as Belcore, Nemorino's self-important rival, and Enzo Dara is properly spectacular as Dr. Dulcamara, who sells Nemorino the magic potion guaranteed to improve his love life, or at least to get him drunk. The melodies in this opera include some of the best ever written, and James Levine, his extraordinary orchestra, and his wonderful chorus know exactly what to do with them. Everything comes together in this production to make it one of the best opera DVDs available. --Joe McLellan

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