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Gaetano Donizetti, Don Pasquale

Overture

Act I

I, i: "Son nov'ore"

I, ii: "Bella siccome un angelo"

I, ii: "E mia sorella!"

I, ii: "Ah! Un foco insolito"

I, ii: "Son rinato"

I, iii: "Prender moglie? ... Sì, signore"

I, iii: "Sogno soave e casto"

I, iii: "Due parole ancore di volo"

I, iii: "Ah! Mi fa il destin mendico"

I, iv: "Quel guardo il cavaliere"

I, iv: "So anch'io la virtù magica"

I, iv: "E il Dottor non si vede!"

I, v: "Pronto io son, purch'io non manchi"

I, v: "Mi volete fiera?"

I, v: "Vado, corro"

Act II

II, i: "Povero Ernesto!"

II, i: "Chercherò lontana terra"

II, i: "E se fia che ad altro oggetto"

II, ii: "Quando avrete introdotto"

II, iii: "Via, da brava ... Reggo appena"

II, iii: "Non abbiate paura"

II, iii: "Misericordia!"

II, iv: "Fra da un parte etcetera"

II, v: "Pria di partir, signore"

II, v: "Siete marito e moglie"

II, v: "Ah! E rimasto là impietrato"

II, v: "Riunita immantinento"

Act III

III, i: "I diamanti, presto, presto"

III, i: "Vediamo: alla modista cento scudi"

III, ii: "Signorina, in tanta fretta dove va"

III, ii: "E' finita, Don Pasquale"

III, ii: "Via, caro sposino"

III, ii: "Qualche nota di cuffie"

III, iii: "Che interminabile andirivieni!"

III, iv: "Siamo intesi ... Sta bene"

III, v: "Don Pasquale..."

III, v: "Cheti, cheti immantinente"

III, v: "Aspetta, aspetta, cara sposina"

III, vi: "Tornami a dir che m'ami"

III, vi: "Eccoli: attenti bene..."

III, vi: "Eccomi"

III, vi: "Bravo, bravo, Don Pasquale"

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Mariame Clément (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina)...

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Cast

Mariame Clément — Stage director

Julia Hansen — Designer

Bernd Purkrabek — Lighting

Alessandro Corbelli — Don Pasquale

Danielle de Niese — Norina

Nikolay Borchev — Dr. Malatesta

Alek Shrader — Ernesto

Program notes

Hailed by The Financial Times as "a Glyndebourne classic", Mariame Clément's 2013 production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale is remembered as a highlight of the celebrated festival's past seasons. Her perceptive re-interpretation of the masterpiece starred the opera buffa expert Alessandro Corbelli as Don Pasquale and the scintillating soprano Danielle de Niese as Norina, joined by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Chorus under the baton of Enrique Mazzola.

In 1842, the director of Paris' Théâtre-Italien Jules Janin suggested to Donizetti the idea of composing a new opera tailored to the talents of Giulia Grisi, Antonio Tamburini, and Luigi Lablache, some of the most popular singers of the day. Donizetti took him at his word, and produced a work now considered the high point of the 19th-century opera buffa tradition. Drawing on selected commedia dell'arte stock characters, the librettist Giovanni Ruffini (in collaboration with Donizetti himself) brought to life in unforgiving detail the story of the curmudgeonly old Don Pasquale, who decides to marry in order to disinherit his nephew Ernesto for himself wanting to marry a young woman judged unsuitable by his uncle. To select a bride, Don Pasquale turns to Dr. Malatesta, who recommends his own convent-raised sister Sofronia. Little does Don Pasquale know that the girl is actually Ernesto's love, Norina, in disguise...

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