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''[[L’elisir d’amore]]'' is  a ''melodramma giocoso'' (comic melodrama, opera buffa) in two acts by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848). Felice Romani wrote the Italian libretto, after Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's ''Le philtre''. 

==The original text==

The opera premiered on 12 May 1832 at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan. 

==Translations and adaptations==

== Performance history in South Africa ==

1965: Presented by the [[EOAN Group]].

1975: Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]].

1976: Presented by [[PACOFS Opera]].

1990: Presented by [[CAPAB Opera]] (10–24 October)

1999: Presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] (12–17 July)

2009: Presented by [[Cape Town Opera]] (23 – 29 August)

== Sources ==

[[Wayne Muller]]. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.

[[Alexandra Xenia Sabina Mossolow]]. 2003. The career of South African soprano Nellie du Toit, born 1929. Unpublished Masters thesis. [[University of Stellenbosch]].

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