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L'elisir d'amore
1832 opera by Gaetano Donizetti
L'elisir d'amore (pronounced[leliˈzirdaˈmoːre]; The Elixir of Love) is a melodramma giocoso (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti.
Felice Romani wrote the Italianlibretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's Le philtre (1831). The opera premiered on 12 May 1832 at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan.
L'elisir d'amore famous arias
Background
Written in haste in a six-week period,L'elisir d'amore was the most often performed opera in Italy between 1838 and 1848 and has remained continually in the international opera repertory.
Today it is one of the most frequently performed of all Donizetti's operas: it appears as number 13 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide in the five seasons between 2008 and 2013.[2] There are a large number of recordings.
It contains the popular tenor aria "Una furtiva lagrima", a romanza that has a considerable per
