Donizetti was a truly prolific opera composer, he could turn out as many as three or four a year and was said to have sketched and written the last act of La favorita in a few hours. Imagine composing ...

Based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel, Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia features opera’s most famous mad scene. The hallmark of Bel Canto (“beautiful singing”) repertory is exacting, florid ...

The Toledo Opera announced its 67th season Monday with two productions in 2025 and 2026. The season will feature Georges Bizet's "Carmen" and Gaetano Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love". "Carmen" will be ...

Celebrate Valentine’s Day by taking in a filmed screening of the much-loved opera L’elisir d’amore (The Love Elixir) by Gaetano Donizetti. This light and comical opera tells the story of how ...

Opera fans and newcomers alike have a chance to experience Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” as the Santa Fe Opera takes its beloved romantic comedy on tour across New Mexico.

“The most resounding fiasco of Donizetti’s career” is Jeremy Commons’s phrase for the reception of this, his 59th opera, at La Fenice, Venice, in 1838. In the canon it comes just before Poliuto, which ...