CONTACT: Brad White
Marketing and Publicity Manager
Center for the Arts, Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Hwy, Malibu, CA 90263
(310) 506-4055
brad.white@pepperdine.edu
BOX OFFICE: (310) 506-4522
http://arts.pepperdine.edu/



THE PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY
FINE ARTS DIVISION
Flora L. Thornton Opera Program

presents Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera

THE ELIXIR OF LOVE
(L'elisir d'amore)

Sung in Italian with English supertitles.

Thursday and Saturday, February 21 and 23, 2013
7:30 p.m.
Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University
24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA

The Pepperdine University Flora L. Thornton Opera Program presents Gaetano Donizetti's comic opera The Elixir of Love (L'elisir d'amore), sung in Italian with English supertitles, at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Saturday, February 21 and 23, at Smothers Theatre on Pepperdine's Malibu campus.

Tickets, priced at $15 for the public, $10 for Pepperdine students, and $12 for Pepperdine faculty and staff, are available now by calling the Pepperdine Center for the Arts Box Office at (310) 506-4522. Tickets for the general public are also available through Ticketmaster at (800) 982-2787. More information: http://arts.pepperdine.edu/

Henry Price directs the Pepperdine student cast, which is backed by the Pepperdine University Orchestra under the baton of Tony Cason.

In this reimagining of Donizetti's classic opera, the story about a love-struck youth who procures a "magic" potion to gain the affection of a young woman is transported to pre-World War II California citrus country.

A generous gift from the late Flora L. Thornton has enabled the University to enhance considerably the quality of its opera productions, its summer European opera studies workshops in Heidelberg, and its arts outreach programs. Recent productions include Die Fledermaus, Little Women, The Bartered Bride, The Marriage of Figaro, Cosi fan tutte, and La boheme.

Alumni from the all-undergraduate program have gone on to some of the nation's finest graduate schools, conservatories, and professional young artist programs.

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