L’Elisir D’Amore

Nemo (or Nemorino as he is known throughout his town, for being the town idiot) loves the local celeb, Singer-Songwriter, Adina, but she is determined to pursue her music rather than a relationship with Nemo. The town decides to have a summer music festival (like Woodstock), with Adina’s homestead as the tent base for the concerts. The very psychedelic “peddler” known as “Dr. Dulcamara” arrives on the scene and convinces Nemo that he has the “Elixir of Love.” Meanwhile the famous rockstar, Belcore, arrives to the town to perform. He immediately decides that he wants Adina to be his “for-now-girlfriend,” and Adina uses his affection to torture Nemo, who believes that Dulcamara has the cure for his boringness, and will make him as desireable as a rockstar. He drinks the elixir, and feels the power coursing through his body, giving him the swagger of a rockstar after only one day. Belcore proposes to Adina, and Nemo laughs, knowing that she will be in love with him in just 24 hours. Belcore offers to marry her that very night, and have the music festival become their wedding reception. Nemo goes crazy and the town whips into a frenzy, excited about the music festival AND a town wedding!

Later that evening, Belcore and Adina are preparing for their wedding, but Adina keeps looking for Nemo, hoping to twist the knife a little more. Nemo arrives, distraught, and encounters Dr. Dulcamara and begs for another dose to speed up the effects. However, he doesn’t have enough money to buy another dose of the “elixir,” so accepts the offer of Belcore to become a “roadie” for his band, to make some more money, but also for Belcore to get the puppy-dog Nemo away from his bride-to-be. Nemo, while wallowing in his feelings, does not hear the news that he has lost his rich Uncle, and over night inherited a vast fortune. The women of the town all conspire to get him to marry them, but he sees Adina, for the first time, upset at he affection that he was getting from the other women in the town. Dr. Dulcamara offers Adina the same elixir that Nemo has taken, but she refuses, because she has a much stronger power within her eyes. Nemo realizes that Adina finally loves him. She arrives and begs him not to leave the town, and admits that she has always loved him. Belcore shrugs off the loss of his would-be wife, with plenty of groupies in the world, and Dr. Dulcamara rejoices in the medicinal power of his famous “Elixir.”