For the films based on the opera, see Don Pasquale (1940 film) and Don Pasquale (1962 film).
Don Pasquale
Opera buffa by Gaetano Donizetti
Luigi Lablache as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore (1832).
Librettist
Giovanni Ruffini
Donizetti
Language
Italian
Premiere
3 January 1843 (1843-01-03)
Théâtre-Italien, Paris
Don Pasquale (Italian pronunciation:[ˌdɔmpaˈskwaːle]) is a Gaetano Donizetti opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts, with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera Ser Marcantonio written in 1810[1] but, on the published libretto, the author appears as "M.A."
Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score. This resulted in confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century,[2] but as Herbert Weinstock establishes, it was largely Ruffini's work and, in withholding his name from it as librettist, "Donizetti or [his assistant] Accursi may have thought that, lacking Ruffini's name, the authorship might as well be assigned to Accursi's initials as to a pseudonym".[3]
The opera was first performed on 3 January 1843 by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris with great success[4] and it is generally regarded as being the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition as well as marking its ending.
^Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 244
^Ashbrook 1982, p. 174
^Weinstock 1963, p. 363
^Donizetti 1870; Chouquet 1889, p. 238. (Chouquet mistakenly gives 4 January as the date of the premiere)
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