Perez, Costello are game in WNO's 'L'elisir d'amore'

Pity opéra bouffe. To those of us who love opera, it's delightful and melodious and frothy and fun, and Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" is among its frothiest and funnest representatives. To those who don't, it's an acquired taste; it requires a certain suspension of disbelief to accept that these hackneyed, century-old jokes, all conveyed in music, are entertaining rather than simply dated. These latter often include younger singers who, not born to this tradition, do their best to immerse them...