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A common human experience, ripe for comic exploitation, duly delivered in Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love). It tells the tale of Nemorino (“little nobody” in ...

Lois rises to match him in her declaration of love – there are fuller sounds here than the first act led one to suspect – with bags of style, though not the pathos I remember from the best couple of ...

Donizetti’s L’elisir D’amore is a firm favourite within the operatic repertory and has been performed in London since 1836. A smash hit since its inception, the new ENO production ( in English The ...