An introduction to-- Donizetti : L'elisir d'amore

Resource Information

The work An introduction to-- Donizetti : L'elisir d'amore represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-Kansas City Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Audio, Nonmusical, Sounds, Music.

Label

An introduction to-- Donizetti : L'elisir d'amore

Title remainder

L'elisir d'amore

Statement of responsibility

written by Thomson Smillie

Title variation

• Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore
• Elisir d'amore

Creator

• Smillie, Thomson

Contributor

• Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848
• Timson, David

Narrator

• Timson, David

Subject

• Electronic audio files
• Operas -- Analysis, appreciation
• Operas -- Excerpts
• Operas -- Stories, plots, etc
• Stories, plots, etc
• Streaming audio
• Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848

Genre

• Stories, plots, etc
• Excerpts
• Electronic audio files
• Streaming audio

Language

• eng
• ita
• eng

Summary

This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is informative yet entertaining, enabling the listener to get more from this remarkable art form. L'elisir d'amore, or The elixir of love, has remained popular for almost two centuries because of a touching tale and a galaxy of comic characters adapted from the traditional commedia dell' arte. Above all Donizetti poured into the score all the warmth and tenderness of the Italian temperament. His melodic invention never ceases to charm whether in the jolly rustic choruses, the exhilarating 'patter' numbers, or the sweet sadness of the beautiful arias, of which 'Una furtiva lagrima,' the great tenor showpiece, is the best known

Member of

• Opera explained
• Naxos Music Library

Accompanying matter

technical information on music

Additional physical form

Also available as compact disc; previously issued as HNH International NAXOS 8.558120.

Cataloging source

NAXOS

Dewey number

782.1

Form of composition

• operas
• not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Language note

Narrated in English; opera excerpts sung in Italian

LC call number

MT100.D66

LC item number

S65 2007ab

Literary text for sound recordings

other

Music parts

not applicable

PerformerNote

Unidentified performers ; David Timson, narrator

Series statement

Opera explained

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable