Don Pasquale - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Text Giovanni Ruffini & Gaetano Donizetti
Dramma buffo in three acts


Musical direction
Francesco Lanzillotta

Staging
Irina Brook

Stage
Noëlle Ginefri-Corbel

Costumes
Sylvie Martin-Hyszka

Light
Arnaud Jung

Choreography
Martin Buczko

Don Pasquale
Michele Pertusi

Ernesto
Josh Lovell

Malatesta
Michael Arivony

Norina
Brenda Rae


Contents

It is one of the most well-known comedy subjects in the world: here the elderly bachelor, concerned about preserving his assets, who wants to slip into the role of the lover again. There the young woman who cleverly leads him by the nose. In Don Pasquale, Donizetti skillfully opened up this framework for action: the opera is burlesque, but also timelessly valid as a confrontation between patriarchal desires and youthful self-determination. Director Irina Brook brings the comedy into the present, leading it rapidly into an exaggerated, candy-colored finale in which laughter is intended - but never just laughed at.



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