DON PASQUALE
Tickets for 'Don Pasquale' are now only available at the Stevens Center of the UNCSA box office. You may purchase tickets at the door, one hour before curtain.
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Email: boxoffice@uncsa.edu
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The wealthy old bachelor, Don Pasquale, has decided to take a wife so that he may produce an heir, cutting his insubordinate nephew, Ernesto, out of his inheritance.
Ernesto is devastated to think of a life without Norina, a beautiful, widow in the village. Enter Dr. Malatesta - whose name translates to mean “headache.” That is exactly what he will be for Pasquale, as he helps the couple come up with a plan to marry with Ernesto’s inheritance!
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COMPOSED BY
Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto BY
Giovanni Ruffini
Premiered
The opera was first performed on January 3, 1843, by the Théâtre-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.
Sung in ITALIAN
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The Cast
James Allbritten
Director
James Allbritten is in his 19th season as Artistic Director for Piedmont Opera,. His work for the company has received considerable critical acclaim. Of PO’s Madama Butterfly, Opera Lively said, “Jamie Allbritten does understand it, and his conducting, if we need to define it by one word, is elegant.”
John McKeever
Conductor
John McKeever recently completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Orchestral Conducting at the University of Colorado Boulder. As a graduate teaching assistant, he served as the Director of the Campus Orchestra. He also served as an Assistant and Cover Conductor for the Boulder Philharmonic..,