If you have never been to an opera before, Donizetti s L elisir d amore is the perfect way to start, as long as you like humour and musicals. Almost any comic opera is just a very good musical, with music all the way through instead of alternating speech and songs, though with better music and better singing.
TULLY POTTER: Booked for the last four performances of L Elisir d Amore, in the key role of Nemorino, Matteo Desole ended up having to sing all 14 - and scored a triumph on the first night.
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