Good Things Come to Those Who Weep: Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore

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“L’Elisir d’Amore” — “The Elixir of Love” — is what’s known as an opera buffa , or comic opera. That means that we’re in for a happy ending. But Donizetti knows that the payoff is only earned through the suffering of his...View more