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Donizetti - Don Pasquale 
Our Price: £17.95 (£15.28 ex VAT)
Format: DVD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Artist(s): Eva Mei, Alessandro Corbelli, Antonino Siragusa, Roberto de Candia, Giorgio Gatti, Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Lirico, Cagliari
Conductor(s): Gérard Korsten
Release Date: 26th February 2007
More Details on Donizetti - Don Pasquale
This lavish 2002 production of Gaetano Donizetti's cynically humorous take on love, marriage and romance, now repackaged and re-released for 2007 at midprice, features the Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Lirico, conducted by Gerard Korsten, and the voices of Alessandro Corbelli, Eva Mei and Roberto de Candia.
Donizetti’s music provides a comic opera sui generis. Coloratura arias, cavatinas and romances, duets and ensembles reveal a musical with which puts the opera on a level with Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Verdi’s Falstaff.
When Don Pasquale had its premiere in 1843, Donizetti was already marked by the illness from which he suffered. In 1846 he was admitted into an institution in Ivry near Paris with signs of progressive paralysis. He died in his native Bergamo in 1848.
'The acting is first class, everybody relishing their roles, Alessandro Corbelli’s Pasquale, bumbling, pompous and outraged, Eva Mei’s Norina shrewish and petulant and full of good humour and Roberto de Candia, a knowing, hoodwinking Malatesta. … A visual delight, a sparkling production with fine comic performances.” MusicWeb
From the Teatro Lirico, February 2002
Directed by Patrizia Carmine
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: LPCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Running Time: 121 mins
Region Code: PAL All
Sound Format: LPCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Running Time: 121 mins
Region Code: PAL All
