What is Don Pasquale?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Luigi Lablache in Don Pasquale.jpeg|thumb|Luigi Lablache was the first Don Pasquale.]] '''''Don Pasquale''''' is an [[Italian language|Italian]] [[Comedy|comic]] [[opera]] in three acts. [[Gaetano Donizetti]] [[Composition (music)|wrote]] the [[music]]. [[Giovanni Ruffini]] [[write|wrote]] the [[libretto]] (story and words). ''Don Pasquale'' was the 64th of the 66 operas Donizetti wrote. It is about an old [[bachelor]] who wants to marry. The opera was first performed on January 3, 1843 at the [[Comédie-Italienne]] in [[Paris, France]]. It was first performed in [[Italy]] at [[La Scala]] in [[Milan]] on April 17, 1843. In [[London, England]], it was first performed on June 29, 1843, and in the [[United States]] on January 7, 1845 in [[New Orleans]].<ref>Holden, p. 244</ref> == Characters == * Don Pasquale, an old [[bachelor]] ([[bass (vocal range)|bass]]) * Dr Malatesta, his [[Medical doctor|doctor]] ([[baritone]]) * Ernesto, Don Pasquale's [[nephew]] ([[tenor]]) * Norina, a young [[widow]] ([[soprano]]) * Carlino, a [[notary]] (bass) == Notes == {{Reflist}} == References == *Holden, Amanda (Ed.) 2001. ''The New Penguin Opera Guide''. Penguin Putnam. {{ISBN|0-140-29312-4}} == Other websites == {{Commons category}} * {{Wayback|url=http://www.karadar.com/Librettos/donizetti_Pasquale.html|title=Libretto |date= 20080610172042}} * [http://englishtouringopera.org.uk/about-eto/opera-synopses/donizetti-don-pasquale/ Longer synopsis of Don Pasquale] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100212104023/http://englishtouringopera.org.uk/about-eto/opera-synopses/donizetti-don-pasquale/ |date=2010-02-12 }} from English Touring Opera * [http://opera.stanford.edu/Donizetti/DonPasquale/disco.html Discography from Stanford website] * {{IMDb title|0032400|Don Pasquale|(1940)}} * {{IMDb title|0260865|Don Pasquale|(TV 1955)}} * {{IMDb title|0253053|Don Pasquale|(TV 1985)}} {{music-stub}} [[Category:Compositions by Gaetano Donizetti]] [[Category:1840s operas]]