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Comic opera in which Nemorino, hapless car mechanic (in this version, set in the late 1940s), falls in love with beautiful Adina, a schoolteacher who just isn't interested - until Nemorino gets a love potion from shady Dr. Dulcamara, and, confident in the potion's power, starts acting confident for once. Adina thinks he's finally gotten over her and starts realizing that maybe she should have given him a chance, but she's annoyed enough that she decides to accept the marriage proposal of conceited Sargeant Belcore instead. Antics ensue.
The set, as usual, was really nice, a perfect Italian village, and was flexible enough to appear as an ordinary village by day, wedding locale by evening. There was one moment when we could see sunflowers in the fields and it was lovely. The best part of this one, though, was the physical comedy and the way the corps gets to ham it up. My friend Val was in this production, and she got to fling herself at Nemorino in one scene where all the village women are trying to tear his clothes off.
I didn't really care about Nemorino all that much, to be honest, but then I checked the program and scrolled through my past opera posts and discovered that he played the title role in Don Carlo, where I also didn't find him compelling! Sorry, Dimitri Pittas, you're just not a romantic hero for me.
The set, as usual, was really nice, a perfect Italian village, and was flexible enough to appear as an ordinary village by day, wedding locale by evening. There was one moment when we could see sunflowers in the fields and it was lovely. The best part of this one, though, was the physical comedy and the way the corps gets to ham it up. My friend Val was in this production, and she got to fling herself at Nemorino in one scene where all the village women are trying to tear his clothes off.
I didn't really care about Nemorino all that much, to be honest, but then I checked the program and scrolled through my past opera posts and discovered that he played the title role in Don Carlo, where I also didn't find him compelling! Sorry, Dimitri Pittas, you're just not a romantic hero for me.
