Name: Don Pasquale
Start: 1979-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1979-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Tenor

Alfredo Kraus

Ernesto

Baritone

Håkan Hagegård

Doctor Malatesta

Bass

Gabriel Bacquier

Don Pasquale

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

ítalska

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

This John Dexter production, designed by Desmond Heeley, was a parting gift to the great American soprano Beverly Sills, who bid farewell to the Met as Norina, the smart young widow at the center of Donizetti’s comedy. The sensational Alfredo Kraus sings her beloved Ernesto. Håkan Hagegård, in his Met debut role and season, is Dr. Malatesta, the man who helps the young couple trick the crusty old bachelor of the title (Gabriel Bacquier at his comical best) into a fake marriage. This being a Donizetti comedy, it all turns out perfectly well at the end—and getting there is pure operatic fun.

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