http://tpr.org en http://tpr.org/post/donizettis-comedic-elixir-love-lelisir-damore <p>After more than 180 years (1832), audiences are still laughing through their tears at Gaetano Donizetti’s comic masterwork, <em>The Elixir of Love</em>.</p><p>It is a commonplace to say that comedy is more difficult than tragedy, but what about an opera that walks that delicate boundary between the two?</p><p>Taking as a starting part the most common of themes -- provincial love and its difficulties -- Donizetti achieves something almost miraculous.</p><p><strong>Opening Night in New York</strong></p> Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:51:30 +0000 Ron Moore 6022 at http://tpr.org Donizetti's Comedic Elixir For Love, 'L'Elisir d'Amore'