Broadway actresses can rest easier knowing that Tony Awards jurisdiction doesn't extend to the Metropolitan Opera. If it did, soprano Anna Netrebko would be a shoo-in to take this year's top honor for ...

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 ...

Festival Napa Valley’s touring production of its 2023 Manetti Shrem Opera — Gaetano Donizetti’s Don Pasquale —debuted at the Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts at UC Davis on ...

There are various menfolk hanging around her, but “Don Pasquale” turns on the doings of its lone female character, the charming and resourceful Norina. Or at least, that was the impression left by the ...

When "Don Pasquale" first premiered in January of 1843, it joined a long tradition of opera buffa, or comedic operas, that had begun a century before. The opera’s composer, Gaetano Donizetti, was a ...

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?

If Julia Hansen’s painterly 18th century designs offer an eye-delighting spread of pastoral prettiness, Donizetti’s piece itself ripostes with its tough-minded warning not to take appearances on trust ...

Damiano Michieletto's modern-day staging of Donizetti's sparkling comedy Don Pasquale divided critics when it last appeared at The Royal Opera House in 2019. The story of the tricking of an old man ...

It would be striking if you could get a proper look at it, but the sheer brightness of the lighting - inconveniently placed between the stage and the supertitles - is a tad strenuous on the eye. You’d ...