Don Pasquale

Gaetano Donizetti

Academy Project

From 30 June to 14 July 2012

Running Time: 3 hours 05 minutes

Sung in Italian

Notes on the performancesOpen: In Donizetti’s irresistible comedy of the same name, Don Pasquale, a rich septuagenarian bachelor with a dogged determination to marry off his nephew, who is head-over-heels in love with the young Norina, to a noble and wealthy ‘old maid’, falls prey to the opera’s schemes and taunts, albethey infused with a subtle sentimentality and a dash of rose-tinted popular wisdom: Il marito vede e tace/quando parla non s’ascolta. (My husband sees and is silent/when he speaks no-one listens).

The opera will appear in the Florence Maggio Musicale production, staged by multi-talented British director, author, humorist, actor, presenter, sculptor and physician Jonathan Miller. The fresh and sparkling staging provides the perfect basis for the annual Teatro della Scala Academy production, in which Academy students create a production to equal the highest standards of performance seen at La Scala.

Don Pasquale: Michele Pertusi (30 June; 3, 6, 9, 12, 14 July)
Simon Lim (4, 10, 13 July)
Malatesta: Christian Senn (30 June; 3, 6, 9, 13 July)
Filippo Polinelli (4, 12, 14 July)
Sergio Vitale (10 July)
Ernesto: Leonardo Cortellazzi (30 June; 3, 6, 9, 13 July)
TBD (4, 10, 12, 14 July)
Norina: Pretty Yende (30 June; 3, 6, 9, 12, 14 July)
Na Hyun Yeo (4, 10 July)
Letitia Nicoleta Vitelaru (13 July)
Un notaro: Mikeil Kiria
Students of the La Scala Academy

In collaboration with the Teatro alla Scala Academy

Production of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze

June 2012

July 2012

Prima e In abb: € 187, € 150, € 100, € 77, € 60, € 38, € 22, € 12 - Fuori abb: € 120, € 100, € 70, € 57, € 46, € 35, € 17, € 10

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