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''[[Don Pasquale]]'' is an ''opera buffa'', or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer.
  
 
==The original text==
 
==The original text==

Revision as of 16:49, 17 February 2024

Don Pasquale is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer.

The original text

Don Pasquale tells the witty story of an old man whose supposed young wife runs rings around him, with her own ulterior romantic purpose in mind.

Translations and adaptations

Performance history in South Africa

1998: Presented by CAPAB Opera (20–28 March)

Sources

'Don Pasquale'. Royal Opera House. https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/don-pasquale-2019-digital

Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.

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