Donizetti LElisir damore (2002)

Lelisir damore The Elixir of Love is a comic opera melodramma giocoso in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto after Eugène Scribes libretto for Daniel Aubers Le philtre 1831 Written in haste in a sixweek period1 Lelisir damore was the most often performed opera in Italy between 1838 and 18481 and it has remained continually in the international opera repertory Today it is one of the most frequently performed of all Donizettis operas it appears as number 13 on the Operabase list of the mostperformed operas worldwide in the five seasons between 2008 and 20132 There are a large number of recordings It contains the popular tenor aria Una furtiva lagrima a romanza that has a considerable performance history in the concert hall