[Met Performance] CID:256090



Don Pasquale
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, January 4, 1979




Don Pasquale (89)
Gaetano Donizetti | Giovanni Ruffini
Don Pasquale
Gabriel Bacquier

Norina
Beverly Sills

Ernesto
Alfredo Kraus

Dr. Malatesta
H?kan Hageg?rd

Notary
Nico Castel

Servant
unknown


Conductor
Nicola Rescigno







Review 1:

Review of Robert Jacobson in Opera News

January 4 was to be the red-letter day marking Alfredo Kraus' return to the house, but yeomanlike he filled in for Nicolai Gedda at the previous performance of "Don Pasquale." By the 4th he had settled into Dexter's production with silken ease, giving vocal pleasure and illumination at every turn, though he tended to avoid extraneous high notes. The miracle of the Spanish tenor is that he knows the exact limits of his voice and never pushes beyond. His placement is a perfect embodiment of bel canto ideals, sounding youthful, smooth in emission, never overinflated, able to diminuendo and crescendo within the scale of his instrument. What a joy to encounter a singer of such intelligence and sensitivity who obeys the laws of nature! His Ernesto was acted with elegance and humor.



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