Saturday at the Opera
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Saturday at the Opera
On Marriage and Laughter with Donizetti’s ‘Don Pasquale’
Saturday afternoon’s opera broadcast features San Francisco Opera’s recent Laurent Pelly production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, the farcical tale of mixed-up marriages and convoluted estate planning. Maurizio Muraro sings the title role, and is joined by Heidi Stober’s Norina, Lawrence Brownlee’s Ernesto, and Lucas Meachem’s Dr. Malatesta.
Conductor: Giuseppe Finzi
Cast:
Don Pasquale: Maurizio Muraro
Norina: Heidi Stober
Ernesto: Lawrence Brownlee
Doctor Malatesta: Lucas Meachem
A Notary: Bojan Knežević