Don Pasquale – Teatro Donizetti, Bergamo
Director Amélie Niermeyer has bravely adopted a modern interpretation of Donizetti’s classic comedy opera in this new production by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti, but at the end of the day, there’s just too much going on which becomes a distraction and disrupts the singing.
In Rome, the old and rich Don Pasquale da Corneto (Roberto de Candia) has decided to disinherit his nephew Ernesto (Javier Camarena), guilty of having refused the hand of a rich spinster because he is in love with Norina (Giulia Mazzola), a poor young widow. Despite his age, and in order to have an offspring, Don Pasquale therefore decides to marry and instructs Doctor Malatesta (Dario Sogos) to find him a wife. Malatesta, who is actually a close friend of Ernesto’s, extols the virtues of his ‘sister’ Sofronia, who...