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Marco Filippo Romano

Don Pasquale

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Timofey Kulyabin

Set designer

Oleg Golovko

Costume designer

Galja Solodovnikova

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Denis Solntsev

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Valery Borisov

Dramaturge

Ilya Kukharenko

Soprano

Guzel Sharipova

Norina

Baritone

Vasily Ladyuk

Doctor Malatesta

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Alexey Tatarintsev

Ernesto

Vladimir Komovich

A notary

Conductor

Alexander Soloviev

Bolshoi Theatre

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Moscow

Russia

Don Pasquale Donizetti

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19 апреля 2016 года на Новой сцене состоялась премьера оперы Гаэтано Доницетти "Дон Паскуале".Дирижер-постановщик — Михал Клауза Режиссер-постановщик — Тимоф...

This Donizetti opera had its 1st performance at the Théâtre-Italien, Paris, on 3 January 1843 and was an immediate success. The composer was repeatedly called to take his bows, and many of the numbers were encored. In the same year Don Pasquale was presented in Milan, Turin, Vienna, London, Brussels and Lille. And to this day it continues to be one of Donizetti’s most popular repertory works.

But, for all this, the Bolshoi Theatre has done no more than two productions of Don Pasquale – in 1850 and 1872. And now, almost 150 years later, the opera is again to grace our stage.

Michal Klauza, artistic director of the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra, who studied, among other people under the eminent Russian conductor and teacher Ilya Musin, and Timofei Kulyabin, the Director in Chief of the famous Novosibirsk Red Torch Theatre, who worked on the production, suggest we regard the opera’s characters not as masks but as real live people.

Timofei Kulyabin: “My aim was to ensure that the plot no longer took the form of an abstract theatrical joke, that all the characters acquired the flesh and blood of present-day people, I tried to find accurate prototypes for them in the modern world. I had to equip each personage with profession and biography, and work out his/her social status. … One of the main problems with the original libretto is that Don Pasquale, who is very well off and advanced in years, is totally naïve in all matters concerning the opposite sex. He is almost like a child. It is very hard to conceive of someone like this in the world today. I had to locate an authentic image for it is the make-up of this strange naivety that acts as the spring to plot developments.”

Don Pasquale by Donizetti, From (2019/2019), Directed by Timofey Kulyabin,, Conductor Alexander Soloviev, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, Russia

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