Cineworld Opera Season

Performance date: 28 March 2010

Running time: 117 mins

Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

Starring: Peter Auty, Ekaterina Siurina, Alfredo Daza, Luciano Di Pasquale, Eliana Pretorian

Set in an idyllic vision of a southern Italian village square, Donizetti's delightful opera tells a tale of romantic rivalry.

The penniless Nemorino and the bumptious Sergeant Belcore are competiting for the love of Adina - a girl both beautiful and bookish. Adina's reading of the classic tale of Tristan and Isolde gives poor love-sick Nemorino an idea. He thinks that the wonder-working Dr Dulcamara might have just the potion his heart requires. Witty, charming and ultimately deeply touching, L'Elisir D'Amore is Italian opera at its intoxicating best. The score bubbles over with high spirits, the action is genuinely funny and though, as in all the best comedies, the laughter is occasionally tinged with tears, true love eventually wins the day - all thanks to a bottle or two of Bordeaux. Acclaimed British tenor Peter Auty returns to the role of Nemorino, while Russian soprano Ekaterina Siurina makes her Glyndebourne debut as Adina. Cast and crew subject to change.

Conductor: Maurizio Benini

You should see it because: Internationally acclaimed conductor Maurizio Benini also makes his Glyndebourne debut here.