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Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti.
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848, composer, composer.
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Operas.
- Genre:
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (2 hr., 13 min., 49 sec.)) : sound, colo
- Other Title:
- Met Opera on Demand.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York, New York] : [Metropolitan Opera], [1979]
- Language Note:
- Sung in Italian; English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- digital
- video file streaming video file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Opening credits
- Sinfonia
- Son nov'ore
- Bella siccome un angelo
- Ah! Un foco insolito
- Son rinato
- Prender moglie?
- Sogno soave e casto
- Due parole ancor
- Quel guardo il cavaliere
- So anch'io la virtù magica
- E il dottor non si vede!
- Pronta io son
- Preludio
- Povero Ernesto!
- Cercherò lontana terra
- E se fia che ad altro oggetto
- Quando avrete introdotto
- Via, da brava
- Act II Non abbiate paura
- Fra da una parte
- Ah, figliuol, non mi far scene
- È rimasto là imprietrato
- Riunita immantimente
- Son tradito
- I diamanti, presto, presto
- Vediamo: alla modista
- Signorina in tanta fretta
- Parto adunque. Parto pure
- Via, caro sposino
- Qualche notta di cuffie
- Che interminabile andirivieni
- Quel nepotino
- Siamo intesi
- Cheti, cheti, immantimente
- Aspetta, aspetta
- Com'è gentil
- Tornami a dir
- Eccoli: attendi ben
- La morale in tutto questo
- Bows and closing credits.
- Participant:
- Beverly Sills ; Alfredo Kraus ; Håkan Hagegård ; Gabriel Bacquier ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; Nicola Rescigno, conductor.
- Credits:
- Director, John Dexter.
- Notes:
- Recorded live in 1979 at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
- Description based on vendor-supplied metadata.
- OCLC:
- 859396244
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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