March 2001
presentation of
By: Gaetano Donizetti
A Comic Opera in Two Acts
Unchaga Hall
March 9, 2001 - 8:00 p.m. sharp
Admission $20.00
Photos from the Saturday night performance.
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Workers and villagers ask Adina (Iren Bartok) what she is reading: which turns out to be a love story about an elixir of love: Tristan and Isolde, "What a wonderful elixir how I wish I had it too, if I only new the mixer of so rare and fine a brew!" |
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Sargent Belcore (Mallory Smith) enters with his regiment |
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Belcore courts Adina while her good friend Giannetta (Camille Hesketh),and the crowd, watches with interest |
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Dr. Dulcamara (Allen Crowley), a traveling charlatan, makes a grand entrance in the village, entrancing the locals , "Look here now he is coming to greet us, take your hats off and show some respect!" |
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Dulcamara works the crowd, decieving them into believing he holds the cure for all their woes, aches and pains, including ageing and baldness! |
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Some of the crowd is mezmerized by the cunning "Doctor" |
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To the delight of Dulcamara, Nemorino begs for a special potion...an elixir of love to help him win Adina. Dulcamara sells him some (which is really only a Bordeaux wine!) with the twisted logic that Nemorino's drinking it will make Adina fall in love with him! |
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Nemorino is overjoyed at the prospect of finally winning Adina's love: "Can she feel it working?" |
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Giannetta and Adina are confused and irritated by the apparently tipsy and oddly-arrogant Nemorino. |
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Nemorino finds false courage (and conceit) in his intoxicating elixir, boasting that Adina will come crawling to him now. |
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Belcore enters with the news that he must return to his garrison and Adina should marry him now before he goes. |
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Ken Torgerson and Peter Fries express their opinions about the whole affair |
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The soldiers and their sweeties are saddened that they must soon part. |
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Belcore dismisses Nemorino as a village idiot and harshly demands that he leave Adina be. "Be gone you blockhead..." |
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Adina feigns happiness to punish Nemorino for his arrogance |
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Bev McAllister, Kim McKinnon (partialy seen) and Nora Rosales gossip amongst themselves. |
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The self-appointed master of Ceremonies, Dulcamara enjoys free food and an attentive crowd for his antics. He sits at the head table at the pre-wedding feast of Adina and Belcore, and rises to propose an entertaining barcarole. |
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Nemorino is thrilled that the extra bottles of elixir he bought with his enlistment payment, have finally made him irresistable to women. Having been busy drinking, he is unaware that his wealthy Uncle has just passed away, leaving him sole heir of his vast fortune...and that all these attentive ladies DO know this already and suddenly find him very attractive! |
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Alto ladies on the prowl for a wealthy hubby: "Pick me, pick me!" |
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Soprano ladies vie for Nemorino's attentions too: "He is a fine young gentleman..." |
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Adina comes in and sees Nemorino with his numerous, flaunting admirers |
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Dulcamara asks the drooling women if they are happy with Nemorino, as Adina looks on. |
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Dulcamara cannot for the life of him, figure out why his cheap Bordeaux wine that he duped Nemorino into buying, is obviously working so well as an "elixir of love". |
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Adina confesses that out of love for Nemorino, she bought back his enlistment papers so he did not have to join the army. He confesses his love as well. |
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To everyones approval, Nemorino and Adina unite. |
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Belcore attributes Nemorino's numerous good fortunes to the power of the "elixir" and then confidently announces he has many other women already in the side-lines anyways, so he is not too upset over losing Adina afterall! |
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Dulcamara, smelling an opportunity too good to pass up, brings out more elixir to sell, including an industrial sized bottle that may just be for his own use! |
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Nemorino- (Rick Szuban) curtain call |
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The cast watches Stage Manager Kari Anderson-Lewis recieve her heartfelt thanks and roses from Mrs. Lopp |
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Erich Lopp and other members of the choir watch as Mrs. Lopp thanks the audience for coming |
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