Sarah Dufresne - Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore - DVD

Country boy Nemorino is determined to win the haughty Adina's heart, but she refuses to give him the time of day. Can Doctor Dulcamara's so-called 'elixir of love' work it's magic? Conductor Sesto Quatrini makes his house debut, as does soprano Nadine Sierra in the role of Adina. She is joined by Liparit Avetisyan, Boris Pinkhasovich and the incomparable Bryn Terfel as the genial wheeler-dealer Doctor Dulcamara.

Two estranged siblings go to their late scientist father's farmhouse to make sense of his incomplete work. They soon discover an evil entity, buried in time and space for millions of years, has been released and begun wreaking havoc on the locals.

This production was filmed live in 2007 at the Teatro Donizetti of Bergamo. The singing of Silvia Dalla Benetta as Adina and Alex Esposito as Dulcamara lifts the show to a higher plane. GAETANO DONIZETTI Silvia Dalla Benetta; Raul Hernandez; Damiano Salerno; Alex Esposito; Elena Borin; Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti/Alessandro De Marchi; alessio Pizzech, director;