Donizetti: Don Pasquale (2019)

March. 22,2019

| Music

Don Pasquale, an old greybeard, decides to take a wife in order to overturn his nephew Ernesto’s plans. Ernesto, however, with the help of Doctor Malatesta, undertakes to ensnare Don Pasquale in the meshes of his own trap, entrusting the role of bride-to-be to Norina, his own betrothed. Docile, then intractable, Norina excels in playing at false appearances. The conflict between the two generations smoulders and stokes the comedy whilst producing an undercurrent of wistful yearning. With sincerity and dramatic profundity, Damiano Michieletto opens a pathway to the heart of an apparently light-hearted work, renowned as the apotheosis of opera buffa.

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Cast

Michele Pertusi as Don Pasquale

[2019] Donizetti: Don Pasquale [2014] Bizet Carmen [2009] La Sonnambula [2001] Rossini: La Cenerentola

Pretty Yende as Norina

[2022] New Year's Concert 2022 from the Teatro La Fenice [2021] "La Traviata" aus der Wiener Staatsoper [2020] Manon - Opera - Opéra national de Paris [2019] The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment [2019] Donizetti: Don Pasquale [2018] Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore

Javier Camarena as Ernesto

[2022] The Metropolitan Opera: Lucia Di Lammermoor [2019] The Metropolitan Opera: La Fille du Régiment [2019] Donizetti: Don Pasquale [2018] Rossini: Semiramide [2014] Bizet Carmen

Reviews

FeistyUpper

2019/03/22

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Contentar

2019/03/23

Best movie of this year hands down!

Bereamic

2019/03/24

Awesome Movie

Geraldine

2019/03/25

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.