Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale Damiano Michieletto 2017

• Music

  Gaetano Donizetti
  (1797 - 1848)

• Libretto

  Giovanni Ruffini

• Libretto

  Gaetano Donizetti

• Conductor

  Evelino Pidò

• Director

  Damiano Michieletto

• Director

  Damiano Michieletto

• Set design

  Paolo Fantin

• Costume design

  Agostino Cavalca

• Lighting design

  Alessandro Carletti

• Video

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“Foolish indeed is he who marries in old age.” Thus ends Don Pasquale: with a wise dictum not lacking in irony that sums up the disappointments of its hero, a rich bachelor keen to marry who is deceived by his nephew Ernesto and his young bride-to-be Norina. First performed in Paris in 1843, at the turning point of several eras, Don Pasquale, a composite and varied work, is the apotheosis of opera buffa. Performed for the first time at the Paris Opera, the production has been entrusted to the Italian director, Damiano Michieletto, who transports us directly to the sincerity and dramatic splendour at the heart of an apparently light‑hearted work.

Orchestre et Chœurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Coproduction with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and Teatro Massimo, Palerme.

Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale Damiano Michieletto 2017

• Don Pasquale

  Michele Pertusi

• Dottor Malatesta

  Florian Sempey

• Ernesto

  Lawrence Brownlee

• Norina

  Nadine Sierra

• Un notario

  Frédéric Guieu