SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — We’ve all met a Don Pasquale: at best bumblingly ineffectual, at worst leeringly prurient. We’ve all had a Dr. Malatesta dupe us, or try to. We may have been one, or both. We ...

Keep up to date with the weekly Nestruck on Theatre newsletter. Sign up today. The story is dated, but cute. Old Don Pasquale says no when his nephew, Ernesto, asks permission to marry Norina; she’s ...

Scott Schoonover and his Union Avenue Opera have a long history (now twenty-nine years) of gathering remarkable operatic voices. Their current production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale has voices that ...

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There’s a moment in “Don Pasquale” when the title character, an elderly man shopping for a young wife, gets his face slapped, hard. You can almost hear the audience gasp — has the comedy gone too far?

Opera Saratoga's production of "Don Pasquale." SARATOGA SPRINGS — Although there are only four characters in “Don Pasquale,” they easily get themselves worked up and tangled up in high pitched drama.

Looking back to various “golden ages” in the Metropolitan Opera’s past—say, the 1950s when Richard Tucker, Zinka Milanov and Leonard Warren trod the boards; or period right around World War I when ...

Don Pasquale Amorous old men come to grief chasing nubile maidens. That was the message in last week's "Der Rosenkavalier" at Orange County's Opera Pacific; it is being reiterated -- in a more modest ...

Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” is often called the last lasting opera buffa, that genre of operatic foolishness as convention-minded, and often as downright mindless, as later-day television sitcoms. Yet ...

ACT ONE begins in Don Pasquale's home. He's a rich old bachelor and has just had a quarrel with Ernesto, his nephew and heir. Ernesto is in love with Norina, who is young and beautiful — but poor.