Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore is a perennial crowd-pleaser, and the opening night of both the season and the production at Garsington Opera was no exception. Set against the magnificent backdrop of the ...

Donizetti wrote more than six dozen operas in the course of around 30 years, so it must have been hard for him not to steal from himself. Still, it always strikes me during the overture to his great ...