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Berkshire Opera Festival Presents Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale”

WAMC Northeast Public Radio | By Joe Donahue
Published August 26, 2019 at 10:33 AM EDT
Poster for Berkshire Opera Festival's production of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale”

Wrapping up its fourth season, Berkshire Opera Festival has two performances of Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” this week.

Donizetti's "Don Pasquale," which premiered in 1843, is a comic opera that is receiving a fully-staged production by Berkshire Opera Festival on Tuesday, August 27 and Friday, August 30 at The Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Directed by Jonathon Loy, the cast includes Craig Colclough as Don Pasquale, Matthew Grills as Ernesto, and Emmett O’Hanlon as Doctor Malatesta, and Metropolitan Opera soprano Deanna Breiwick plays Norina. The production is conducted by Brian Garman.

Breiwick and Garman joined us.
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