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While Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale is traditionally set in Rome, Utah Opera’s performance of Don Pasquale uses the Wild West as its backdrop. Don Pasquale is the story of an elderly, wealthy, (and miserly) bachelor who has no heir. To remedy the situation, he tries to persuade his young nephew Ernesto to accept an arranged marriage. Ernesto refuses to obey his uncle since his heart is already pledged to the glamorous yet penniless widow, Norina. In a fit of anger, Pasquale turns the tables on his nephew by disinheriting him and deciding to get married and produce an heir himself.
After a bewildering chain of events involving a little fraud and some bogus legal proceedings, the story ends well with true love conquering all—as we hope it always does.
Sung in Italian with English supertitles
Premiere: January 3, 1843 at the Théâtre Italian in Paris.
Utah Opera Premier: 1981
Opera Prelude Join us for a half-hour introductory lecture with Dr. Carol Anderson, Principal Coach, one hour before curtain of each Utah Opera performance in the orchestra level of Capitol Theatre. |
