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 Donizetti: Don Pasquale / Mei, Corbelli, Korsten
Donizetti
Release Date: 11/21/2006 
Label:  Tdk   Catalog #: OPDPM  
Encoding:  Region 1 (U.S. and Canada)
Composer:  Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:  Antonio SiragusaAlessandro CorbelliEva MeiRoberto De CandiaGiorgio Gatti

Conductor:  Gerard Korsten
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Cagliari Theater ChorusCagliari Theater Orchestra

Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 

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Gaetano DONIZETTI
Don Pasquale

Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Lirico, Cagliari, Gérard Korsten

Recorded at: Teatro Lirico
Directed by: Patrizia Carmine
Picture Format: 16:9
Sound Format: LPCM stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
Running Time: 121 mins
Region Code: All
Booklet Languages: English, French, German
Subtitles: English, German, French, Italian, Spanish
Recording Date: February 2002

This lavish 2002 production of Gaetano Donizetti's cynically humorous take on love, marriage and romance features the Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro Lirico, conducted by Gerard Korsten, and the voices of Eva Mei, Alessandro Corbelli and Roberto de Candia. It is released simultaneously this month on TDK DVD and Audio CD.

Donizetti’s music provides a comic opera sui generis. Coloratura arias, cavatinas and romances, duets and ensembles reveal a musical with which puts the opera on a level with Rossini’s Barber of Seville and Verdi’s Falstaff.

When Don Pasquale had its premiere in 1843, Donizetti was already marked by the illness from which he suffered. In 1846 he was admitted into an institution in Ivry near Paris with signs of progressive paralysis. He died in his native Bergamo in 1848.

CAST:
Norina - Eva Mei
Don Pasquale - Alessandro Corbelli
Ernesto - Antonino Siragusa
Dottor Malatesta - Roberto de Candia
Un Notaro - Giorgio Gatti

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1.  Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:  Antonio Siragusa (Tenor), Alessandro Corbelli (Baritone), Eva Mei (Soprano),
Roberto De Candia (Baritone), Giorgio Gatti (Baritone)
Conductor:  Gerard Korsten
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Cagliari Theater Chorus,  Cagliari Theater Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1843; Italy 
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