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2023-08-27 18:31:00
Don Pasquale is a comic opera in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti which premiered in Paris in 1843 and had its Italian premiere later that year in Milan. It is a ‘romantic comedy’ with 19th-century values. The plot, set in Rome, revolves around Don Pasquale, who wants his nephew Ernesto to marry for convenience instead of love. Ernesto, however, is in love with Norina, a young widow. Dr. Malatesta, who is Pasquale’s friend, wants to help the lovers unite and […]
2020-08-03 13:56:14
Dufay's travels, 2020
[…] chorister at Cambrai Cathedral, and events connected with the funding of his obit service. Planchart had determined that Dufay was born on August 5th of 1397 in Beersel, Brabant, not far from Brussels, and moved with his mother to Cambrai, France, soon after. One thing that doesn’t fail to surprise us is the mobility of musicians of the time. We know that in 1420 Dufay went to Rimini where he entered the service of Carlo Malatesta; Rimini is more than 800 miles away from Cambrai, and you have to travel to Geneva, then Turin, Milan and then Bologna in order to get there. After returning to Cambrai, Dufay went to Laon. He then went to Bologna, where he served at the court of Cardinal Louis Aleman. From Bologna Dufay went to Rome, where he served as the papal chaplain. He may have traveled for a brief stay in the Benedictine […]
2019-10-16 19:14:04
Anglais - A Highly Enjoyable New Don Pasquale at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Gaetano Donizetti’s 64th opera Don Pasquale of 1843 represents both the zenith and the end of opera buffa because it stands as one of the finest examples of the genre, and yet there are practically none written after that date that are still in the standard repertoire. Set in Rome, it sees the ageing Don Pasquale disinherit his nephew Ernesto, who loves the young but poor widow Norina, for refusing the woman he had found for him. Even Don Pasquale’s own doctor Malatesta thinks this is bad form on the older man’s part, and hatches a plan with Norina whereby Malatesta will offer his own cousin Sofronia for marriage to Don Pasquale. It is actually Norina in disguise, and Don Pasquale agrees almost immediately to marry her as she has apparently just come from a convent and seems very sweet and innocent. As soon as they are married, however, she […]
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