Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale at Palais Garnier, Paris
Don Pasquale is an Italian opera buffa or comic opera. Segregated in three acts this opera buffa by Gaetano Donizetti is based on an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer himself. Don Pasquale narrates the story of a touching and authoritarian old man who is trapped up in the web of his own entourage. Both comical and dramatic, Donizetti's work marks the return of Neapol…