Having performed our Spring
Concerts in April, to full houses,
we start rehearsing in June for
our main production.
25th
- 29th November 2008 at The Electric Theatre
Donizetti’s
L’Elisir d’Amore
A comic opera, in two acts,
In English, in a new translation
by Peter Melville
Caricature of Gaetano Donizetti.
Donizetti, often completing works
at
great speed, including L’Elisir d’Amore in around
fourteen
days, was evidently also quick witted:
"Donizetti, when asked which of
his
own operas he thought the best, spontaneously replied, 'How can I say
which? A father always has a preference for a crippled child, and I
have so many.'" (Louis Engel: "From Mozart to Mario", 1886)
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Please note that The Electric Theatre box office is not
yet in a position to take ticket orders for these performances.