Opera at USC Gives Skilled Reading of Comic Opera Gaetano Donizetti was an Italian composer who could create L’elisir d’amore (The Elixir of Love) — an opera about a troupe of silly dramatis personae, including a snake oil salesman, a poor, hapless peasant impossibly in love with the town’s wealthiest lady, a dying rich uncle and a most impudent army sergeant — and mix in some of the most moving and lovely music you could only imagine in your ...
March 1, 2014 - Free Times