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He knew how to make audiences laugh and weep — often in the same opera, sometimes in the same aria.",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":11},"minimark",[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":14},"",2,[],"md",{},true,[19,22],{"title":20,"slug":21},"Lucia di Lammermoor","lucia-di-lammermoor",{"title":23,"slug":24},"L'elisir d'amore","l-elisir-d-amore",4,"/en/donizetti",{"title":5,"description":12},"donizetti","en/donizetti/index","1797 — 1848","Z9Uphi9-OHmLea0CYpL9aTWIisjNyq15T3jjdrRu98s",[33,75],{"id":34,"title":23,"anno":35,"aria":36,"atti":39,"bio":6,"body":46,"compositore":50,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":51,"meta":52,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":53,"personaggi":54,"seo":71,"slug":6,"stem":72,"tagline":73,"years":6,"__hash__":74},"en/en/donizetti/l-elisir-d-amore.md","Milan, 1832",{"nome":37,"descrizione":38},"Una furtiva lagrima","Nemorino sees a tear on Adina's cheek and understands she loves him. It is one of the purest and most moving tenor arias in the repertoire — written, according to legend, in a single night.",[40,43],{"titolo":41,"testo":42},"Act I — The Elixir","A village in the Basque country. Nemorino has always loved Adina but does not dare declare himself. Adina reads aloud the story of Tristan and Isolde and the love potion. The charlatan Dulcamara arrives with his cart full of cures for everything. Nemorino asks for the love elixir. Dulcamara sells him a bottle of red wine, telling him it will work within twenty-four hours — but he will already be gone. Nemorino drinks and immediately feels invincible. His breezy new behaviour bewilders and irritates Adina, who out of spite agrees to marry the sergeant Belcore.",{"titolo":44,"testo":45},"Act II — The Tear","Nemorino, desperate, enlists in the army to get money for more potion. Meanwhile news spreads that his rich uncle has died leaving him his inheritance — news he himself does not yet know. All the village girls begin to court him. Nemorino does not understand: it must be the elixir working! Adina watches him, realises she truly loves him, buys out his army enlistment. Nemorino sees her shed a tear. He has his answer.",{"type":9,"value":47,"toc":48},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":49},[],"Donizetti","L'elisir d'amore proves that Donizetti could be light without being shallow. Beneath the comedy is a real story: a man who loves without conditions, and a woman who learns to admit it. The happy ending is earned, not given.",{},"/en/donizetti/l-elisir-d-amore",[55,59,63,67],{"nome":56,"voce":57,"descrizione":58},"Nemorino","Tenor — the protagonist","A simple peasant, a little naïve, hopelessly in love with Adina. His disarming goodness is the heart of the opera.",{"nome":60,"voce":61,"descrizione":62},"Adina","Soprano","Beautiful, educated, independent. She reads Orlando Furioso to the village women. She cares for Nemorino but will not admit it until the very last moment.",{"nome":64,"voce":65,"descrizione":66},"Dulcamara","Bass buffo — the charlatan","A travelling salesman of miracle cures. He sells Nemorino a 'love potion' that is simply Bordeaux. The most likeable comic character in the repertoire.",{"nome":68,"voce":69,"descrizione":70},"Belcore","Baritone","An army sergeant, self-assured, courting Adina. Nemorino's rival — vain but not wicked.",{"title":23,"description":12},"en/donizetti/l-elisir-d-amore","A naïve boy, a charlatan, a potion that is just wine — and a love that works anyway","cu0_4xCVVp3vlTyRcEhalrwsxc37RBaOFjcqQXBmsKI",{"id":76,"title":20,"anno":77,"aria":78,"atti":81,"bio":6,"body":91,"compositore":50,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":95,"meta":96,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":97,"personaggi":98,"seo":115,"slug":6,"stem":116,"tagline":117,"years":6,"__hash__":118},"en/en/donizetti/lucia-di-lammermoor.md","Naples, 1835",{"nome":79,"descrizione":80},"Il dolce suono — The Mad Scene","Lucia appears in a blood-stained wedding gown, singing in a state of ecstatic hallucination. It is the most virtuosistic and devastating scene in all bel canto. No soprano ever forgets it.",[82,85,88],{"titolo":83,"testo":84},"Act I — Forbidden Love","Scotland, 17th century. Lucia and Edgardo love each other in secret: their families have been enemies for generations. Edgardo must leave for France. They exchange vows of marriage. Enrico, Lucia's brother, needs a political alliance and has already chosen another husband for her: Arturo Bucklaw.",{"titolo":86,"testo":87},"Act II — The Signature and the Wedding","Enrico convinces Lucia that Edgardo has abandoned her by showing her a forged letter. Lucia, broken, signs the marriage contract. At that very moment Edgardo bursts in, returned from France. He sees the signature. He curses her. Lucia cannot explain herself. The quartet that follows — Lucia, Edgardo, Enrico and Raimondo — is one of the most heartbreaking moments in all bel canto history.",{"titolo":89,"testo":90},"Act III — The Madness and the Deaths","That same night, during the wedding feast, Raimondo comes down the stairs with a stricken face. Lucia has killed her husband in the bridal chamber. Then she appears — in a white wedding gown stained with blood, eyes unseeing. She sings in another voice, from another life. She is already elsewhere. She dies shortly after. Edgardo, on hearing the news, stabs himself on the Ravenswood tomb.",{"type":9,"value":92,"toc":93},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":94},[],"Lucia di Lammermoor defined the Romantic figure of the woman destroyed by love and family. The mad scene influenced every subsequent representation of female madness in nineteenth-century art.",{},"/en/donizetti/lucia-di-lammermoor",[99,103,107,111],{"nome":100,"voce":101,"descrizione":102},"Lucia","Coloratura soprano — the protagonist","A young Scottish woman, romantic and fragile. She loves Edgardo with her whole being. When forced to marry another, her mind shatters — and Donizetti transforms madness into music.",{"nome":104,"voce":105,"descrizione":106},"Edgardo di Ravenswood","Tenor","A nobleman in a feud with Lucia's family. Their love is forbidden from the start. His final death is among the most beautiful in the tenor repertoire.",{"nome":108,"voce":109,"descrizione":110},"Enrico Ashton","Baritone — the brother","Lucia's brother, he forces her to marry another for political reasons. He is not a monster: he is a man who puts family before everything. The result is monstrous nonetheless.",{"nome":112,"voce":113,"descrizione":114},"Raimondo","Bass — the chaplain","Lucia's confidant, he tries to protect her. It is he who announces to the wedding guests what has happened in the bridal chamber.",{"title":20,"description":12},"en/donizetti/lucia-di-lammermoor","The most famous mad scene in opera history — and a love story shattered by family","Ctw5Jkuo_DGcR-VF-Ov5ESKQpjOa-s7wcZISNRmWFkI",1774014353061]