Review: The Elixir Of Love/Opera Australia

Review: The Elixir Of Love/Opera Australia

  The Elixir of Love (L’elisir d’amore) Melodramma giocoso in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti to a libretto by Felice Romani, after Eugène Scribe’s text for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber’s Le philtre (1831);  Opera Australia, Joan Sutherland Theatre, Sydney Opera House, August 11th, 2014.   After a very popular and beautifully executed season of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale in 2013,…

Review: A Turkish Delight – Opera Australia ‘The Turk in Italy’

Review: A Turkish Delight – Opera Australia ‘The Turk in Italy’

  The Turk in Italy, G Rossini, libretto by Felice Romani after the libretto by Caterino Mazzola Opera Australia, Wednesday January 22nd   If Rossini’s opera The Turk in Italy (Il Turco in Italia) were set in present times, the long sea voyage undertaken by Selim the Turk, eventually landing with his entourage on a…