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2023 / AROP evening / Opera
05 Oct.

Don Pasquale

    Palais Garnier

    19h30

    Duration
    2h35

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h50
  • 2nd part
    21h20
  • End of the performance
    22h05

Don Pasquale, an old fogey, believes he is playing a clever trick on his nephew Ernesto by telling him that he is going to marry a young girl - which will deprive him of any inheritance. But the charming Norina and Dr. Malatesta will catch him at his own game. Disguises, false marriages and games of deception follow one another in Gaetano Donizetti's opera inspired by the characters of the commedia dell'arte. With this whirlwind score, successfully premiered in Paris in 1843, the author of Lucia di Lammermoor shows a genuine talent for comedy and refreshes “opera buffa”. While director Damiano Michieletto delights in playing with eras, he preserves the work's levity and brings out its bittersweet tenderness. Such is one of the trademarks of Donizetti, ever full of empathy for his characters, even when they are old fogeys.

Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale Damiano Michieletto 2017

  • Music

    Gaetano Donizetti
    (1797 - 1848)

  • Conductor
    Speranza Scappucci
  • Chorus master
    Alessandro Di Stefano

  • Libretto

    Giovanni Ruffini

  • Libretto

    Gaetano Donizetti

  • Director

    Damiano Michieletto

  • Set design

    Paolo Fantin

  • Costume design

    Agostino Cavalca

  • Lighting design

    Alessandro Carletti

  • Video

    Roland Horvath / rocafilm

Cast

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Laurent
Naouri

Don Pasquale

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Julie
Fuchs

Norina

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Florian
Sempey

Dottor Malatesta

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René
Barbera

Ernesto

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Slawomir
Szychowiak

Un notaro

The Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Coproduction with the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and the Teatro Massimo, Palermo.