Chicago Classical Music

Gaetano Donizetti’s The Elixir of Love is a sparkling 1832 comedy set in an Italian village where the peasant farmer Nemorino pines for the beautiful, wealthy, and indifferent Adina. When the quack Doctor Dulcamara arrives in town, Nemorino tries to win Adina’s love by using the doctor’s so-called love potion. Matters are complicated when the dashing Sergeant Belcore swoops in with designs on Adina, and the outcome of the plot ultimately hangs on the love elixir’s real (or imagined) potency. Performed in Italian with English supertitles.

Tickets are $18 general admission, $15 for seniors and Northwestern University faculty and staff, and $8 for students.