The romantic comedy is transported to 1940s England and given a period drama ambience at the London Coliseum
Imagine if the early 19th-century composers of Italian opera, such as Rossini and Donizetti, were alive today. They could tune in to a television sitcom and recognise just the kind of comedy that they made so popular in their time. They might even do a sideline in supplying the music. That is the idea behind English National Opera’s new production at the London Coliseum of Donizetti’s romantic comedy The Elixir of Love, directed by Harry Fehr.
New Zealander Thomas Atkins, also a former young artist but at the Royal Opera, does a poignant line in shy glances and nervous hand-wringing, matched by a modest half-voice as if nervous of making himself heard. He delivers a very touching “Una furtiva lagrima”, but a theatre of this size would benefit from him singing out more. It is not as though Atkins is short of voice, as we hear from his ringing top notes.
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