Gaetano Donizetti

The Elixir of Love

University of Debrecen, Faculty of Music

L'elisir d'amore (The Elixir of Love, pronounced [leli?zir da?mo?re]) is a comic opera (melodramma giocoso) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's Le philtre(1831). The opera premiered on 12 May 1832 at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan.