Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale Damiano Michieletto 2017

• Conductor

  Speranza Scappucci; Alessandro Di Stefano

• Music

  Gaetano Donizetti
  (1797 - 1848)

• Libretto

  Giovanni Ruffini

• Libretto

  Gaetano Donizetti

• Director

  Damiano Michieletto

• Set design

  Paolo Fantin

• Costume design

  Agostino Cavalca

• Lighting design

  Alessandro Carletti

• Video

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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.

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

Don Pasquale

Don Pasquale Damiano Michieletto 2017

• Don Pasquale

  Laurent Naouri

• Norina

  Julie Fuchs

• Dottor Malatesta

  Florian Sempey

• Ernesto

  René Barbera

• Un notaro

  Slawomir Szychowiak