English Touring Opera transfers Donizetti to the English coast

Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani (Nemorino) and Emyr Wyn Jones (Dulcamara)

Natasha Page (Adina), Timothy Nelson (Belcore) and chorus

Emyr Wyn Jones (Dulcamara) and chorus

Natasha Page (Adina) and Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani (Nemorino)

By Dominic Lowe, 29 September 2025

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“made the most of the English text with some pointed diction”

Reviewed at Hackney Empire, London on 27 September 2025

Donizetti, L'elisir d'amore

English Touring Opera

Alice Farnham, Conductor

Martin Constantine, Director

April Dalton, Set Designer

Megan Rarity, Costume Designer

James Platt, Lighting Designer

Natasha Page, Adina

Tamsanqa Tylor Lamani, Nemorino

Timothy Nelson, Belcore

Emyr Wyn Jones, Dulcamara

Rosie Lomas, Giannetta

Art imitates art in ETO’s bracing new Pagliacci

Dominic Lowe, 10th April

Divorced from Cavalleria rusticana, English Touring Opera’s contemporary take on Leoncavallo’s masterpiece ticks all the boxes.

****1

Blissful and hard-boiled: I Capuleti e i Montecchi at ETO

David Karlin, 22nd February

Eloise Lally shifts the Romeo and Juliet love story into New York mafia families. Jessica Cale and Samantha Price provide blissful bel canto as the star-crossed lovers.

****1

A tender Shakespeare-inspired curio from English Touring Opera

Susannah Moody, 15th February

ETO kicks off its spring season with What Dreams May Come, a strange and moving staging of songs inspired by William Shakespeare.

***11

Theatrically poverty-stricken: ETO's Blond Eckbert

Mark Valencia, 18th October

Judith Weir's cryptic folk opera lacks the narrative propulsion necessary to enthral an audience, and without resolution there is no catharsis.

**111

ETO's The Snowmaiden melts the heart and gladdens the ears

Dominic Lowe, 28th September

Olivia Fuchs' production of Rimsky-Korsakov's charming fable for ETO begins its tour in Hackney and is worth travelling to see. Catch this thoughtful production in a town near you.

****1

ETO opens spring tour with an off-the-wall Manon Lescaut

Mark Valencia, 24th February

Jude Christian's indulgent reinvention of Puccini's opera does not serve English Touring Opera well as it embarks on its spring tour.

**111

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Dominic Lowe

Dominic Lowe recently completed a degree in Classics, and one of his great interests is the reception of Greece and Rome in opera. A regular opera-goer since his very early teens, he is particularly keen on the hidden operatic gems of the 19th century. He is largely based in the South of England.

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