Elisir d'amore

"Sizzling...like a live wire throwing off sparks, Sacramento Opera's production sizzles with potent singing and crisp, smart direction. The result was the delivery of the best production this company has staged in recent memory. Condemi asks his singers to honor all the broad comic strokes while also delivering the tiniest of dramatic inflections. Typically you get the first but not the second in such productions. In this production, acting is no poor stepchild to singing"

Edward Ortiz for SACRAMENTO BEE, Feb, 2, 2010