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Music by Franco Mannino, inspired by Donizetti 's L'elisir d'amore. Cinematography by Piero Portalupi. Edited by Mario Serandrei. Scenography by Gianni Polidori. Costumes by Piero Tosi. Assistant Directors: Francesco Rosi and Franco Zeffirelli. Cast. Anna Magnani as Maddalena Cecconi. Walter Chiari as Alberto Annovazzi.
Plot. Bellissima centers on a working-class mother in Rome, Maddalena, who drags her young daughter to Cinecittà Studios to attend an audition for a new film by Alessandro Blasetti. Maddalena's efforts to promote her daughter grow increasingly frenzied.
May 19, 2017 · Although Gaetano Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love) is not altogether unfamiliar (it was last produced here by New Opera Singapore in 2012), opening night of the Italian bel canto classic was unfortunately greeted by a house with many empty seats.
Nov 24, 2023 · Donizetti’s most famous romantic operatic comedy “L’Elisir d’Amore” The Elixir of Love] returned to the War Memorial Opera House. The bel canto opera has not been performed here in the last decade and a half. (This was the opera’s longest omission from the San Francisco Opera’s performance repertory of the past 75 years).
Aug 7, 2009 · Send to a Friend. The singers delivery professional performances, and rising conductor Edward Gardner treats Donizetti’s score to an energetic, vibrant workover. The greatest impression and delight, however, comes from Pelly’s cinematic detail and his natural, inspired work with the leads and chorus.
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2023-24 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a treasure from Met broadcast history, going back 50 years to the day: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, The Elixir of Love, starring the magnificent tenor Luciano Pavarotti in a performance from April 6, 1974.
L'Elisir d'amore is to Donizetti what Il Barbiere di Siviglia is to Rossini: his passport to eternal fame. Like his triumphant senior's comic masterpiece, the score was completed in less than two weeks.
