Rolando Villazon, Regula Mühlemann, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Miah Persson, Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Orchestra & Roman Trekel

Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore

Name: Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore
Uploaded: 2012
Duration: T2H15M16S
Description: From the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden comes this spectacular production of Gaetano Donizettis wonderful L’elisir d’amore. Set in the scenario of a Western film production, this is the second directorial work of Rolando Villazón.

Video Director: Nele Münchmeyer - Artist: Rolando Villazon, Regula Mühlemann, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo, Miah Persson, Pablo Heras-Casado, Balthasar-Neumann-Orchestra & Roman Trekel - Producer: EuroArts - Conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado - Composer: Gaetano Donizetti - Orchestra: Balthasar-Neumann-Orchestra

Baden-Baden, Germany | 135 min | 2012 | S (Sexual Content)

Donizetti – L’elisir d’amore

With Rolando Villazón directing and playing the title role, the world rushed for tickets to the Baden-Baden 2012 Pentecost-holiday opera. Following his directorial debut in 2011 (Werther, Lyon) the Mexican tenor went a step further, staging Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore and directing himself in the role of Nemorino. The film tells the story of this “story within a story” and reveals the creative process of staging the comic opera in two acts at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden in April and May 2012. We follow Rolando Villazón in rehearsals with singers and actors, and in his exchanges with young conductor Pablo Heras-Casado on the way to a highly personal performance.