<Act Two>
The wedding celebration is underway.
To amuse the guests, Dulcamara and Adina perform a duet about a lecherous old Venetian senator lusting after a gondolier girl.
The notary arrives, but Adina tries to stall.
She doesn't see Nemorino, and since she's only marrying to torment him, why bother until he's there?
Everyone heads off to continue celebrating, but Dulcamara stays behind to pick over the remnants of the feast.
Nemorino enters, heart broken, and asks the doctor what to do.
Dulcamara naturally rocommends another dose of elixir, but Nemorino has no money.
In desperation, he decides to enlist in Belcore's platoon to raise money to buy another bottle.
Unbeknownst to Nemorino, his wealthy uncle has died and left him a fortune.
When the village girls hear the news, they rush to throw themselves at him.
Nemorino, of course, believes that the second dose of elixir has done the trick: Adina can't believe what she's seeing.
Her interest piqued, she asks Dulcamara if he knows what's going on, and he tells her that Nemorino enlisted to buy the elixir and win her love.
Touched that he would go to such lengths to win her affections, Adina realizes that she has loved Nemorino all along.
Nemorino, of course, has no interest in the village girls: he wants only Adian.
Sensing Adina's jealousy, he realizes that she loves him.
Adina buys Nemorino's enlistment back from Belcore and confesses to him her true feelings.
Everyone in the village celebrates their happinesss and, of course, the power of Dulcamara's elixir.
-the end - |
