Best Pirce ⌛ Donizetti: Don Pasquale Blu Ray – Alek Shrader, Alessandro Corbelli 🔔

One of the reasons why Donizetti’s Don Pasquale is regarded as a cornerstone of the Italian comic opera tradition is because its characters are no mere comedia dell’arte stereotypes, but complex, vulnerable human beings. This is brought to the fore in Mariame Cl ments sensitive and perceptive production, which was hailed by the Financial Times as ‘a Glyndebourne classic’. Acclaimed buffo bartone Alessandro Corbelli sings the title role ‘with just the right degree of lugbriousn.