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Great Performances
Great Performances
At the Met: L'Elisir d'Amore
Airs Friday, January 18 at 8:00 PM
Season 7 opens with Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera "L'Elisir d'Amore," about a peasant (Matthew Polenzani) who wins the heart of a beautiful farm owner (Anna Netrebko) with the help of a love potion he purchased from a quack doctor (Ambrogio Maestri).
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