I have a little gift for all of you. I just found it today. For those of you who are seasoned veterans, I'm sure you already know about it. But for those of us who are new to opera, and who won't accept anything but the best, there is a full recording of Don Pasquale from 1932! Not only does it naturally have wonderful singing, due to the time in which it was recorded, but Tito Schipa himself is in it! For my blind peers, do not turn it off after the first song if you inten to hear it all. After each song, there is a little pause, since these were originally 78s, not lps. For my fellow operetta lovers, this, while a true opera, is, nonetheless, very light, so it should appeal to you.

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If, like me, you don't know Italian, here is the libretto in English. I'm sure there are others, but this is from a year before Schipa's birth, so it's not full of modernised language and other nonsense. I don't know if that is done often with operas (it is with operettas, to my extreme annoyance), but it's better to be safe than sorry. My strategy has been to read one or two scenes, then listen to some of it, then read more.

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#78Rpm #DonPasquale #FullOpera #GaetanoDonizetti #opera #Italian #TitoSchipa

(CP aus Bluesky)

#StaatsoperHamburg
Mit #MichelePertusi hatten wir einen sehr erfahrenen, soliden #DonPasquale. Schön, ihn noch am letzten Tag der DP-Vsl. in dieser Saison gesehen zu haben.
#FilipeManu war mir etwas eintönig u. fahl (Auftritte in der Wiener Staatsoper?🤔).
EM Bogdanchikov, good job als Dottore👏

(CP aus Bluesky)

Da der #Kortenspil -Abend abgesagt wurde, kam ich schnell spontan zur
#StaatsoperHamburg #DonPasquale.
Besetzung.
Ich lasse mich von #MichelePertusi überraschen.

Ne manquons pas d'annoncer nos événements dans l'émission participative CONTINUO AKTUELL et de célébrer le 58e jour d'anniversaire de Gioacchino Rossini avec l'ouverture du Barbier de Séville sur le blog de fce-lu.com!

#Donizetti #Rossini #annoncesdeconcerts #donpasquale #operaluxembourg #capeettelbruck #sequenda #continuoaktuell #fcelucom #fcecontinuo @cape_ettelbruck

Donizetti's Don Pasquale was first performed in Paris #OTD in 1843.

So let us listen to Tito Schipa and Amelita Galli-Curci singing Tornami a dir se m'ami from Act III.

It doesn't get much better than this, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hdRGFfNwc8

@classicalmusic #Donizetti #DonPasquale

Donizetti's great comedy Don Pasquale was first performed in Paris #OTD in 1843.

Here's part of Act III - Com'è gentil, followed by Tornami a dir se m'ami - from the Met in 1979, with Beverly Sills and Alfredo Kraus:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS-Hs5xeBkg

@classicalmusic #Donizetti #DonPasquale #Kraus #Sills