Intermountain Opera Bozeman
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale – October 9 at 7:00 PM and October 11 at 3:00 PM
Saunter across the street after the performance and party with the cast at John Bozeman’s Bistro.
In Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the rich and miserly old Pasquale (Corey Crider) plans to marry Norina (Lindsay Ohse), a young and beautiful woman, who loves a young and penniless man, Ernesto (Thomas Glenn), who is Pasquale’s nephew. Norina and Ernesto scheme with the wily Dr. Malatesta (Sean Anderson) to outwit Pasquale. Pasquale schemes with the same Dr. Malatesta to outwit Norina and Ernesto. Confusion abounds. Who’s doing what with whom and where? Join us in October to find out.
All of this confusion is seamlessly woven together with Donizetti’s enormous gift for melody from the coloratura of emotional highs to lyrical, love-lorn laments. Better still, he wrote humor into his music – rollicking, rhythmic and playful. Donizettii knew that depth and humanity lay behind this comic façade, and he lavished the score with special care. The music will be brought to life under the baton of conductor Dean Williamson. The whimsical “spaghetti western” setting for this production, under the direction of Benjamin Smith, completes the infectious fun.
Intermountain Opera Bozeman season and individual opera tickets are on sale now.
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