RixosMag.pdf Sonbahar-Fall 2015 | Page 203

EN POPÜLER OPERA KOMEDİLERİNDEN BİRİ OLAN L’ELISIR D’AMORE, GÜZEL MELODİLER İLE KEYİFLİ BİR HİKAYEYİ BİR ARAYA GETİRİYOR hearing the story, nemorino starts to think if such a love potion really exists. The first act starts while Adina is sitting beneath a tree on her farm, reading a book, her friend Giannetta and a group of peasants ask her to read to them. Then Adina reads them the story of how Tristan won Isolde by drinking a magic love potion. Hearing the story, Nemorino starts to think if such a love potion really exists. At that moment, Sergeant Belcore, a rival, arrives and asks Adina to marry him. But Adina laughs at him and says that she is not in a hurry to get married. Seeing such a rival, Nemorino declares his love for Adina clumsily. She tells him to stop mooning around her but Nemorino tells her the only thing he wants is to love her. In the village square, the populace eagerly greet the traveling “Doctor” Dulcamara. Nemorino asks him if he has the Elixir of Love. Dulcamara jumps into this business opportunity and gives Nemorino a bottle of wine, telling him that it is the magical elixir. Nemorino gulps it all down and naturally becomes tipsy. When Adina enters to the scene, Nemorino, certain that the potion will work, pretends to ignore her. Adina gets so surprised and angry at his behavior, she starts to flirt with Belcore to punish Nemorino. Belcore asks her to marry him again and she agrees. Nemorino leaves the scene horrified. İlk sahne; Adina, çiftliğinde bir ağacın altında kitap okurken başlar. Arkadaşı Giannetta ve diğer köylüler kitabı onla