11/10/18 – Don Pasquale – 1pm

San Francisco Opera

Don Pasquale

• by Gaetano Donizetti 
• Libretto by Giovanni Ruffini and Gaetano Donizetti
• SUNG IN ITALIAN
• photo credit: Cory Weaver / San Francisco Opera

OVERVIEW

Sparkling with virtuosic singing and playful humor, this boisterous comedy pits the miserly Don Pasquale against his nephew Ernesto and Ernesto’s sweetheart, the crafty young Norina.

This performance of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale features Maurizio Muraro in the title role along with cast members Heidi Stober (Norina), Lawrence Brownlee (Ernesto), Lucas Meachem (Doctor Malatesta), and Bojan Knezevic (A Notary). Giuseppe Finzi conducts.

Cast

Don Pasquale Maurizio Muraro
Dr. Malatesta Lucas Meachem
Ernesto Lawrence Brownlee *
Norina Heidi Stober
A Notary Bojan Knežević
*San Francisco Opera debut †Current Adler Fellow