Organization

Ravenna Festival

Conductor

Riccardo Muti

Stage director

Andrea De Rosa

Singer

Bass

Claudio Desderi

Don Pasquale

Baritone

Mario Cassi

Doctor Malatesta

Tenor

Juan Francisco Gatell

Ernesto

Soprano

Laura Giordano

Norina

Gabriele Spina

A notary

Others

Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza

Orchestra

Orchestra Giovanile Luigi Cherubini

Riccardo Muti conducts Don Pasquale in Ravenna - a great celebration for everyone.” This press quote from the Italian music magazine Il giornale della musica hit the mark exactly. Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the 21 year old Andrea da Rosa and listening to a high potential and unspent young cast, you feel how powerful, charming and timeless this score by Donizetti is. This production was recorded during the Ravenna Festival in the gorgeous and patriarchal Teatro Dante Alighieri, in December 2006. Maestro Riccardo Muti shows one more time, what it means to perform an Italian opera with a young and professional Italian cast – an outstanding and breathtaking performance and really, "a great celebration for everyone": the audience, the cast and now - with this DVD - also for the costumers home.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Ensemble