Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Blu-Ray) – Bryn Terfel, Olga Peretyatko

Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Artists: Bryn Terfel, Ioan Hotea, Markus Werba, Olga Peretyatko, Royal Opera Chorus, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor: Evelino Pidò
Director: Damiano Michieletto
Video Format: 1080i 16:9
Sound Format: LPCM 2.0 / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Opus Arte
Release Date: September 22, 2023
Run Time: 136 minutes; plus 9 minutes bonus material

Royal Opera favorite Bryn Terfel heads the cast for this exhilarating production of Donizetti’s comedy of domestic drama across two generations. Don Pasquale is the witty story of a middle-aged man whose supposed young wife runs rings around him – with her own ulterior romantic purpose in mind – and has long delighted and surprised audiences, not least as presented with the sparkle of its music and the virtuosic skill of its performers. Damiano Michieletto’s production shows how contemporary the characters still are and how immediate and touching the story remains.

“Don Pasquale is a genuinely funny comic opera and Damiano Michieletto’s production updates it in a way that makes it funnier still.” (The Daily Express)

“Bryn Terfel’s Pasquale – at first stumbling and self-important, then pathetically impotent – is a brilliant creation, more sympathetically imagined than any character he has incarnated thus far in his career.” (The Independent)

“Olga Peretyatko, making her Royal Opera debut, has a soprano of diamond-cut brilliance for the meddlesome Norina. Markus Werba is the quick-witted Malatesta and Ioan Hotea a nicely youthful Ernesto. Evelino Pidò conducts with native Italianate zing.” (The Financial Times)

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