{"id":3108,"date":"2020-12-30T13:45:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/?page_id=3108"},"modified":"2020-12-30T13:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T19:46:06","slug":"lelisir-damore-the-elixir-of-love-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/lelisir-damore-the-elixir-of-love-review\/","title":{"rendered":"L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore                  (The Elixir of Love) Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"3108\" class=\"elementor elementor-3108\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-75c4653 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"75c4653\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-05e3fcd\" data-id=\"05e3fcd\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9e0a21d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9e0a21d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"article-section-header\">\n<section>\n<div id=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"article-header-title\">\n<h1 class=\"article-headline\">Both comedy and heart in LOON&#8217;s &#8216;L&#8217;elisir d&#8217;amore<\/h1>\n<div class=\"light-grey byline\">Written By:\u00a0<span id=\"noLink\" class=\"ttu\">Lawrance Bernabo For the News Tribune<\/span>\u00a0|\u00a0<time class=\"timestamp\">Jun 15th 2019 &#8211; 5pm.<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-section-body\">\n<div id=\"top-social-share\">\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.duluthnewstribune.com\/entertainment\/2711131-Both-comedy-and-heart-in-LOONs-Lelisir-damore\" data-title=\"Both comedy and heart in LOON's 'L'elisir d'amore' | Duluth News Tribune\" data-description=\"Lyric Opera of the North certainly comes up with plenty of comedy in \">\n<div id=\"atstbx\" class=\"at-resp-share-element at-style-responsive addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"at-51788f7f-5201-40c6-a417-6b422469727d\"><span id=\"at-51788f7f-5201-40c6-a417-6b422469727d\" class=\"at4-visually-hidden\"><\/span>\n<div class=\"at-share-btn-elements\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"piano-inline-container\">Lyric Opera of the North certainly comes up with plenty of comedy in &#8220;L&#8217;elisir d&#8217;amore&#8221; (&#8220;The Elixir of Love&#8221;), but they also carry off capturing the heart in their production of this comic opera, which is much harder to do.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"main-body\">\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<p>Poor lad Nemorino is in love with the capricious Adina, a wealthy-land owner. When Belcore, a dashing military man, arrives and immediately proposes to Adina, Nemorino decides he needs a love portion to win her heart.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Dulcamara, a traveling charlatan, arrives in town claiming to have just such an elixir of love, and the comic stage is set.<\/p>\n<p>The overture presents a charming prologue involving a young girl (Giulia Calland) and boy (Oliver Hansen-Gum) that pays dividends several times later in the opera.<\/p>\n<p>Tenor Gennard Lombardozzi&#8217;s chief asset as the slouched-shouldered sad sack Nemorino is his earnestness when he begs Adina to put off her marriage until the next day in &#8220;Adina, credimi.&#8221; His plaintive &#8220;Una furtiva lagrima&#8221; in Act 2 evoked appreciative murmurs from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>As Adina, soprano Sarah Lawrence carries off the same transmutation, starting with her spirited defense of love over magic to Dulcamara and culminating when she strips Adina of all affection in a sublime &#8220;Prendi, per me sei libero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After scoring as Leporello in his LOON debut in &#8220;Don Giovanni,&#8221; baritone Lee Gregory delivers another stellar performance as the flamboyant Belcore, a sergeant who dresses like he should be leading a company of Hussars and not a rag-tag collection of misfits in uniform.<\/p>\n<p>In a carriage that would be the envy of Signor Pirelli, Ron Nelman makes a grand entrance as Dr. Dulcamara to sell his magic potions (&#8220;Udite, udito, o rustici&#8221;). I think the bass has more duets with the soprano and tenor than Nemorino and Adina have with each other.<\/p>\n<p>Supertitles projected above the stage translate the Italian libretto. Knowing the lyrics is critical for catching the humor in arias like Belcore&#8217;s &#8220;Come Paride vezzoso&#8221; or the ironic subtext in Dulcamara and Adina&#8217;s barcarolle &#8220;lo son ricco e tu sei bella.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The concern is that director Bradley Greenwald and the cast of 33 have come up with more shtick than you can shake a stick at, so you would hate to be reading supertitles and miss the fun stuff happening on stage.<\/p>\n<p>Having the orchestra pit in the middle of the stage being uncovered certainly helps in hearing the 26 musicians under conductor Dirk Meyer&#8217;s baton.<\/p>\n<p>Also sounding great was the chorus, especially in &#8220;Saria possibile?&#8221; where Gianetta (Jennier LeDoux) and the ladies unwittingly help set up the happy ending.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, remember when opera in Duluth was performed in front of black curtains?<\/p>\n<p>Ann Gumpper&#8217;s impressive scenic design has a tree with a massive trunk in front of detailed buildings behind which there is a cutout of the rest of the 19th century Basque village and a backdrop of blue sky with wispy clouds.<\/p>\n<p>I might argue this is more set than the production needs, but I also have to admit it is certainly the set this production deserves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both comedy and heart in LOON&#8217;s &#8216;L&#8217;elisir d&#8217;amore Written By:\u00a0Lawrance Bernabo For the News Tribune\u00a0|\u00a0Jun 15th 2019 &#8211; 5pm. \u00a0 Lyric Opera of the North certainly comes up with plenty of comedy in &#8220;L&#8217;elisir d&#8217;amore&#8221; (&#8220;The Elixir of Love&#8221;), but they also carry off capturing the heart in their production of this comic opera, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3108","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3121,"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3108\/revisions\/3121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anngumpperdesign.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}