FULL DON PASQUALE Birmingham 2021 Opera Novella
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Don Pasquale   
- Composer: Donizetti Gaetano  
- Libretto: Giovanni Ruffini    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Midland Arts Centre, Birmingham, UK  
- Recorded:
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Michael Lam
- Conductor: Tim Harding, Roxanne Korda, Claire Hollocks, Roger Paterson  
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director: Janet Phillips  
- Stage Designer: Sue Cash  
- Costume Designer:   
Information about the Recording
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs  
- Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Review:
“It’s funny, it’s sharp, it’s sometimes a bit crazy: you can see why it’s become popular with audiences and opera companies alike.”
“This was a terrific production by director Janet Phillips. The acting was uniformly alive and cheeky – the three boys and two girls…were uniformly good and sometimes original and inventive, both when directed (pretty closely) and when improvising, always artfully.”
“Michael Lam in the title role…has a lovely voice, baritone merging into bass, which impressed every single time he opened his mouth. Comparably fine, and a little more characterful (as he has to be) was Yuen Howang as ‘Malfie’ (Malfitano in the original), But the singing of both had poise and flexibility AND character.”
“Claire Hollocks made a neat Despina-like…character out of the soubrette, here theatrical ‘dresser’, Marie: she could have overacted, but stayed just the right side of comedy. I liked the amorous nephew ‘Ernest’ (Donizetti’s Ernesto), a smaller but pleasingly telling role for tenor Roger Paterson, the more realistic rival to Pasquale for Norina’s hand. Finally as Norina herself, the opera’s heroine and subject of universal attention, Roxanne Korda was ABSOLUTELY STUNNING. What a fabulous, rich, exciting voice, managing coloratura at both ends. She should be up there with the best; and I bet you she will be.”
– Roderic Dunnett, Behind the Arras. (https://www.behindthearras.com/Review…)