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Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, ''The Elixir of Love''

Valencia (Spain)

The seascape beyond the beach consists of a Rear-illuminated backdrop, 23 x h 10 m, realized with the film RNV - Nevada digital printing.The backdrop is illuminated here with daylight.L'elisir d'amore is a comic opera which tells of the vicissitudes that Nemorino, a young peasant, goes through for conquering the love ...
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... of the rich and capricious Adina.«It is an amusing story, with implications of sadness, that shows us as the unlucky Nemorino is enslaved by a magic elixir that promises love. Nevertheless the same elixir is a deception»,Damiano Michieletto explains in his notes for the stage direction.The staging is transposed to the present day, along a beach ...
... where Adina manages the kiosk where villanella Giannetta works.Nemorino is a humble handyman boy, whose maximum happiness is that to contemplate the beautiful Adina.«''L'elisir d'amore'' is also a metaphor on the discomfort of the young people that are looking for shelter in the use of chemical substances ...»
«... to avoid to face their fears and their problems.For this reason I have opted for transposing the story in the contemporaneity with real and believable characters.»[To the point that the design of the beach seems to be inspired by those of Valencia, 3 km from the theater where the show was performed, Ed.].«The beach welcomes in a simple way the relationships of the libretto ...»
«... and strengthens the fun and the credibility for today's public.The first act develops in the daytime in the beach, with the families and the babies playing.»
Dulcamara is a modern charlatan that promises happiness in exchange for his energetic beverages ...
... while Belcore a just disembarked sailor looking for female company.
The photos illustrate the effective passage of the scene from the diurnal light ...
The Elixir of Love
Playful melodrama in two acts
Music
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Libretto
Felice Romani
from Le philtre by Eugène Scribe
First night
Milan, Teatro della Cannobiana, 12/5/1832
Scenography
Paolo Fantin
Costume design
Silvia Aymonino
Light design
Alessandro Carletti
Stage direction
Damiano Michieletto
Staging
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia of Valencia
Season
2011

Materials used in this production

Digital printing rear-illuminated backdrops

RNV - Nevada

Rear-projection films

RNV - Nevada digital printing

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