Published on Sep 22, 2014

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: October 16-19, 2014

Venue: Drama Theatre of NCPA

Prices: 180, 280, 380, 480, 580

Features: Don Pasquale, opera buffa (comic opera) in three acts by Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti. From October 16th-19th, the NCPA's production of Don Pasquale will be staged in Drama Theatre of NCPA in Beijing.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

Conductor: Daniele Callegari
Director: Pier Francesso Maestrini
Set Design: Gao Guangjian
Costume Design: Alberto Spiazzi
Lighting Design: Pascal Merat

Leading Cast:
Don Pasquale by Bruno Pratico/Li Ao
Noria by Ekaterina Bakanova/Xu Lei
Ernesto by Shi Yijie/Yuan Lu
Dottor Matatesta: Filippo Polinelli/Liu Songhu
Natalo by Wang Hexiang

Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera Ser Marcantonio written in 1810 but, on the published libretto, the author appears as "M.A."

Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score. This resulted in confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century, but as Herbert Weinstock establishes, it was largely Ruffini's work and, in withholding his name from it as librettist, "Donizetti or Accursi may have thought that, lacking Ruffini's name, the authorship might as well be assigned to Accursi's initials as to a pseudonym".

The opera was first performed on 3 January 1843 by the Theatre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris with great success and it is generally regarded as being the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition and, in fact, marking its ending.

Tickets for NCPA's Production of Donizetti's Opera Don Pasquale are Available now!