Welsh National Opera first staged this Opera North production in 2003, and the original director, Daniel Slater, has revived it.
Daniel Slater’s joyous relocation of Donizetti’s bucolic romantic comedy The Elixir of Love to the Italian Riviera circa 1950.
Updating the action to the Italian Riviera in the fifites proves the happiest of notions.
Brightens up a cold winter's evening.
[It] will lift jaded wintry spirits quicker than a stack of holiday brochures.