Portland Opera’s 50th anniversary season will conclude Aug. 1 with a celebration featuring a street fair and free outdoor simulcast of its final production of Gaetano Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love.”

While opera and a street fair might seem like an unusual pairing, Portland Opera ties it all together with a Wild West theme. The street fair is the Opera’s gift to the community as the capstone to its golden anniversary season.

“The Elixir of Love,” composed in 1832, tells the story of the lowly Nemorino, who resorts to buying a love potion from the quack Doctor Dulcamara and is transformed from doormat to dreamboat to win the heart of the wealthy Adina. Portland Opera’s innovative staging sets this version of “The Elixir of Love” in the American Wild West of the 1880s. Nemorino becomes a cowpoke and Dulcamara is a traveling snake oil salesman peddling 40-proof “elixir.”

To coincide with its last performance of “The Elixir of Love” on Aug. 1, Portland Opera is hosting a street fair on Southwest Main Street between the Antoinette Hatfield Hall and the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall. Festivities begin at noon and will include family-friendly activities such as balloon animals, face-painting, lassoing lessons and selfies in front of the Wells Fargo stage coach. Visitors can help create a mini-opera in a “choose your own adventure” format during two Portland Opera-To-Go performances at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Then, in a nod to the opera’s Wild West setting, Portland bluegrass band Will West and the Friendly Strangers will perform at 5:30 p.m. prior to the 7:30 p.m. free simulcast of “The Elixir of Love,” sung in Italian with English supertitles.

“The Elixir of Love” will be performed by Portland Opera at Portland’s Newmark Theatre on July 17, 19, 23, 25 and 30, and Aug. 1. Ticket prices range from $25 to $110 plus fees. Unsold tickets are available to students and military for $10 and to seniors for $20 each two hours prior to each show only. The street fair from noon to 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 1 is free.

For more information go to www.portlandopera.org. Tickets for the Newmark Theatre performances of “The Elixir of Love” can be purchased from the Portland Opera box office at 866-739-6737 or at www.ticketmaster.com.

— Reporter: 541-383-0350, khimstreet@bendbulletin.com