Don Pasquale: 'Un foco insolito' - Glyndebourne

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Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale) performs 'Un foco insolito' from the Festival 2013 production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale.

Director: Mariame Clément

Cast: Alessandro Corbelli, Nikolay Borchev, Alek Shrader, Danielle de Niese, James Platt, Anna-Marie Sullivan

Conductor: Enrique Mazzola

.The cast is of vintage quality. Danielle de Niese offers effortless command of the stage and high-flying vocalism as a tricksy Norina. Enea Scala’s Ernesto combines vital tenor singing with a lazy charm as Pasquale’s wayward nephew. The distinguished Italian buffo specialist Alessandro Corbelli is quite simply the most human protagonist one will ever see or hear - sad and funny simultaneously. More mystifying in his motivation than usual, the manipulative Malatesta comes over as darkly elegant in Nikolay Borchev’s sinister interpretation. Conductor Enrique Mazzola bounces the score along. The overall result is Glyndebourne at its best.' - The Stage

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