L’elisir d’amore

In the organizer's words:

Nemorino is in love with Adina, but this love seems hopeless. When he learns that she is interested in the self-confident and swashbuckling Sergeant Belcore, his despair grows. He hopes to speed things up with a love potion - as with Tristan and Isolde - and so falls for the quack doctor Dulcamara. He offers him a simple red wine as a love potion at an exorbitant price. But even this red wine seems to have an effect. Dizziness, placebo and comic coincidences pervade the opera and in the end everything turns out differently than expected and in Nemorino's favor.

Even 30 years before Richard Wagner's successful opera, Gaetano Donizetti used the story of Tristan and Isolde as the introductory subject for his "Love Potion" (1832). He himself described the opera in two acts as an "opera comica", whereby it is repeatedly interspersed with serious and emotional moments. As one of Donizetti's greatest successes, "The Love Potion" not only remained popular during the composer's lifetime, but has also established itself as a perennial favorite on the world's opera stages to this day. After "Don Pasquale", the Canadian artist duo André Barbe and Rénaud Doucet, known for their opulent and humorous productions, are once again devoting themselves to one of Donizetti's comic works.

Please note: We would like to point out that strobe lighting is used several times in this production before the interval.

Price information:

Discounts for pupils, students and trainees under 30 years of age, participants in voluntary services (BFD, FSJ, FÖJ), ALG II recipients and people with disabilities (from a degree of disability of 50). Please have your discount card ready at the entrance.