About the opera
- Run time: 2hrs 30min, 1 intermission
- Sung in: Italian
- Subtitles: English, German and other languages
- Opera house: Vienna State Opera
Don Pasquale is Donizetti's comic masterpiece. It’s one of the oldest stories of all: a foolish old bachelor wants to marry a beauty young enough to be his daughter. In the opera, a love story somehow triumphs over absurd characters, unlikely disguises and much confusion. With a dazzling score keeping the plot moving apace, farcical scenes lead to sweet soprano and tenor arias and love duets.
Ticket information
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Vienna State Opera
Opernring 2, 1010 Vienna View in Google Maps
How to get there:
Subway: U1, U2, U4 to Karlsplatz
Trams: 1, 2, D, 62, 71 to Opernring
Conductor Giacomo Sagripanti
Don Pasquale Erwin Schrott
Ernesto Edgardo Rocha
Malatesta Davide Luciano
Norina Pretty Yende
Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) was remarkably productive, composing more than 60 operas plus orchestral and chamber music, in a career abbreviated by mental illness and premature death.
The libretto is largely by Italian writer Giovanni Ruffini (1807 – 1881). As Donizetti had made many changes to the draft, Ruffini asked for his name to be omitted from the score, which lead to confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century.
The plot of Don Pasquale is based on the opera Ser Marcantonio (1810) by Stefano Pavesi to a libretto by Angelo Anelli.
