Organization

Conductor

Alessandro De Marchi

Stage director

Ugo Gregoretti

Set designer

Eugenio Guglielminetti

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Andrea Anfossi

Chorus master

Ulisse Trabacchin

Singer

Bass

Nicola Alaimo

Don Pasquale

Lucio Gallo

Soprano

Maria Grazia Schiavo

Norina

Francesca Pia Vitale

Tenor

Antonino Siragusa

Ernesto

Matteo Falcier

Baritone

Simone Del Savio

Doctor Malatesta

Vincenzo Nizzardo

Teatro Regio di Torino

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Torino

Others

Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino

Revival Director

Riccardino Massa

Choreographer

Anna Maria Bruzzese

Italian

Turin

Italy

Teatro Regio

Don Pasquale Donizetti

Public

English

Approved

In Donizetti’s Don Pasquale any kindliness is excluded, as the humourism is as irresistible as it is cruel. The protagonist is a wealthy old man who decides to marry in order to disinherit his nephew Ernesto, who is in love with Norina, a beautiful but penniless widow. The decision will cost Don Pasquale dearly! His friend, Dr Malatesta, comes up with a colossal deception which will eventually see the old man, mocked and ridiculed, accepting with a wry smile the adage spoken by his future daughter-in-law: “It is a stupid man/ who admires himself in old age”.

In this opera, farcical moments are rapidly followed by others of sentimental tenderness, such as Ernesto’s moonlight serenade which sent the Parisian audience into a frenzy on its debut evening in 1843. In this historic production, the ductility and reactivity required to deal with the different situations will be guaranteed by a double quartet of top-class specialists. The maestro Alessandro De Marchi, with his usual attention to the interpretative methods of the bel canto era, will conduct the orchestra though a scintillating score. The sets and costumes by Eugenio Guglielminetti position the events against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Rome, full of life and poetry, for the masterful direction of Ugo Gregoretti.
Alessandro De Marchi conductor
Ugo Gregoretti direction
Riccardino Massa revival of direction
Eugenio Guglielminetti sets and costumes
Anna Maria Bruzzese mimic movements
Andrea Anfossi lighting
Ulisse Trabacchin chorus master
Orchestra and Chorus Teatro Regio Torino
Staging Teatro Regio Torino

Lecture-Concert: Wednesday 17 January at 6 pm - Piccolo Regio Puccini

Comic opera in three acts
Music by Gaetano Donizetti
Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti
World première:
Paris, Théâtre de la comédie italienne, 01/03/1843
Overtitles in italian/english
Duration: 2h 40'
Indicative duration
160'

Don Pasquale Bass-baritone
Nicola Alaimo
25
27
30
1

Don Pasquale Bass
Lucio Gallo
26
28
31

Norina Soprano
Maria Grazia Schiavo
25
27
30
1

Norina Soprano
Francesca Pia Vitale
26
28
31

Ernesto Tenor
Antonino Siragusa
25
27
30
1

Ernesto Tenor
Matteo Falcier
26
28
31

Dottor Malatesta Baritone
Simone Del Savio
25
27
30
1

Dr Malatesta Baritone
Vincenzo Nizzardo
26
28
31

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble