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Donizetti's
DON PASQUALE
A comic opera in three acts by Gaetano
Donizetti,
sung in English
Candlelight Opera are pleased to present a new fully staged production of Donizetti’s comic masterpiece, Don Pasquale. Beautifully costumed in corsets and crinolines, the vivacious score is Donizetti at his musical best, and love and laughter are woven through this timeless and glorious story, beautifully portrayed by Candlelight Opera’s talented company of singers.
Don Pasquale has his mind set on disinheriting his nephew Ernesto and getting himself some heirs of his own. His friend, Dr Malatesta, persuades him he has found a suitable young woman for him to marry, fresh out of the convent. Not only has Pasquale denied his nephew his inheritance, he has also denied him permission to marry his love Norina. So, as part of a plot, Norina gets together with Dr Maletesta and poses as the eligible wife to be, but before the ink is dry on the marriage documents, Norina begins to make Pasquale’s life utterly impossible until he is practically begging Ernesto to take her off his hands.
Venues hosting
performances in 2010