Don Pasquale - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Don Pasquale

musical direction
Giacomo Sagripanti
Staging
Irina Brook
stage
Noëlle Ginefri-Corbel
Costumes
Sylvie Martin-Hyszka
light
Arnaud Jung
choreography
Martin Buczko
Don Pasquale
Nicola Alaimo
Ernesto
Cyrille Dubois
Malatesta
Sergey Kaydalov
Norina
Slávka Zámečníková

It is one of the best-known comedy films in the world: Here the elderly bachelor who wants to preserve his assets and 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 skilfully set up this framework: the opera is burlesque, but also timelessly valid as a conflict between patriarchal wishes and youthful self-determination. Director Irina Brook puts the comedy into the present, quickly leading it into an exaggerated, candy-colored finale, in which people should laugh - but never just laugh at them.

The plot
The old, wealthy, but stingy bachelor Don Pasquale wants to marry off his nephew Ernesto: to a wealthy woman. But Ernesto prefers the young, destitute widow Norina, who loves him. Although Don Pasquale has never seen Norina, he rejects this marriage - and unceremoniously chases Ernesto out of the house. Dejected, this one of his lover Norina writes a farewell letter. But Norina doesn't give up on Ernesto. Don Pasquale's new plan is now to marry himself - and his friend Dr. Malatesta is supposed to help him with this. However, he sticks to Ernesto and threads a game of confusion in which Norina and Ernesto play along: Norina is presented to the old bachelor as Malatesta's well-behaved sister Sofronia, who grew up in the monastery. Don Pasquale is carried away by this quiet, virtuous creature - and enters into a marriage of convenience staged by Malatesta (which Don Pasquale believes to be real). Immediately after the wedding, Sofronia (= Norina) changes her behavior. She becomes a lavish, loveless, snippy Xanthippe who terrorizes Pasquale and - apparently - cheats on him. In order to drive her out of the house again, Don Pasquale wants to marry off his nephew Ernesto, with a rich dowry, to Norina (whom he still seems to be unfamiliar with) and take them in with him. Then the true identity of Sofronia is revealed to him. He has to learn: Older semesters shouldn't court younger women ...

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