Don Pasquale at Teatro Colón

OPERA BUFFA IN THREE ACTS (1843)
LIBRETTO GIOVANNI RUFFINI (IN ITALIAN)


TEATRO COLÓN NEW PRODUCTION

When buffo seemed reviled and the arrival of Romanticism´s serious opera was imminent, Donizetti showed that this genre possibilities could still be reformulated and exploited. Don Pasquale is often considered the last great opera buffa of the belcantista Italian school. Set in the19th-century Rome, with an archetypal protagonist (the old man mad of love, attracted by a younger woman) it is the 69th title of Bergamo´s genius. It was premiered in 1843 at the Italian Theater in Paris, the city where Donizetti lived in the final stage of his compositional career.