Review: Vancouver Opera presents L’elisir d’amore

Vancouver Opera presents L’elisir d’amore
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Tickets from $41.75 | vancouveropera.ca
Continues Jan. 25 and 27, 7:30 p.m.We talk a lot about opera as theatre these days, but usually that doesn’t extend to the masterworks of the bel canto era, which overwhelmingly favour spectacular singing over theatrical subtlety. In Vancouver Opera’s January offering of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore, director Brenna Corner has performed a minor mirac