Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) - L'elisir d'amore (1985)
Cover Front Album
Composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Conductor Richard Bonynge
Orchestra / Ensemble I English Chamber Orchestra
Length 140:29
Format CD
Genre Violin Concerto; Opera
Chorus I Ambrosian Opera Chorus
Chorus Master John McCarthy
Index 175
Out of Print No
Musicians
Soloist Sutherland; Pavarotti; Cossa; Malas; Casula
Credits
Producer Christopher Raeburn
Label Decca
Track List
67:19
01 Act I: Scene 1: Prelude 02:56
02 Act I: Scene 1: "Bel conforto al mietitore" 02:09
03 Act I: Scene 1: "Quanto e bella, quanto e cara!" 03:20
04 Act I: Scene 1: "Benedette queste carte!" 05:04
05 Act I: Scene 1: Marcia. "Come paride vezzoso" 04:28
06 Act I: Scene 1: "Or se m'ami, come io t'amo" 05:38
07 Act I: Scene 1: "Una parola, o Adina" 09:22
08 Act I: Scene 2: "Che vuol dire cotesta suonata?" 01:52
09 Act I: Scene 2: "Udite, udite, o rustici" 08:00
10 Act I: Scene 2: "Ardir! Ha forse il cielo mandato" 00:47
11 Act I: Scene 2: "Voglia dire, lo stupendo elisir" 07:39
12 Act I: Scene 2: "Caro elisir! Sei mio!" 01:23
13 Act I: Scene 2: "Chi e mai quel matto?" 02:23
14 Act I: Scene 2: "Esulti pur la barbara" 05:48
15 Act I: Scene 2: "Tran tran tran tran...In guerra ed in amor" 03:34
16 Act I: Scene 2: "Signor sargente" 02:56
73:10
01 Act I: Scene 2: "Adina credimi" 08:24
02 Act II: Scene 1: "Cantiamo, cantiam, cantiam" 03:34
03 Act II: Scene 1: "Barcaruola a due voci" 02:26
04 Act II: Scene 1: "Silenzio! E qua il notaro" 04:34
05 Act II: Scene 1: "La donna e un animale" 02:43
06 Act II: Scene 1: "Ai perigli della guerra" 07:16
07 Act II: Scene 2: "Saria possible" 04:21
08 Act II: Scene 2: "Dell 'elisir mirabile" 04:28
09 Act II: Scene 2: "Io gia m'immagino" 05:26
10 Act II: Scene 2: "Quanto amaore! Ed io spietata!" 07:54
11 Act II: Scene 2: "Una furtiva lagrima" 06:40
12 Act II: Scene 2: "Prendi; per me sei librero" 11:16
13 Act II: Scene 2: "Alto! Fronte!" 01:39
14 Act II: Scene 2: "Ei corregge ogni difetto" 02:29
Personal
Purchase Date 4/28/1999
Value $35.00
Store BMG
Condition 100%
Librettist Felice Romani
Nationality Italian
Premiere Cannobiana, Milan, 1832
"Form" Opera in two acts and two scenes
Language Italian
Period Romantic
Details
Studio Kingsway Hall, London
Catalog Number 414 461-2
Live No
Recording Date 1/1/1970
Spars ADD
Reissue No
Sound Stereo
Notes
Adina: Joan Sutherland
Nemorino: Luciano Pavarotti
Belcore: Domenic Cossa
Dulcamara: Spiro Malas
Giannetta: Maria Casula

Notes, illustrations, text and translations

Essay: "Dr. Donizetti's Magic Recipe" by William Weaver

Libretto after "Le Philtre" by Scribe