Spend One Night – And One Night Only! – with Don Pasquale at the TNN

Le Tout Vienne is currently under the spell of Irina Brook’s version of the famous Donizetti opera. And on May 8, le Tout Nice will be, too. Since taking over the reins as director of the Théâtre National de Nice in September 2014, Irina Brook has unleashed a firework of creative shows and festivals, both as a […]

A superb musical comedy

Gaetano Donizetti’s humorous opera Don Pasquale, with its sweet melodies and beautiful arias, is a piece that even people who are not very interested in opera can enjoy. I personally have seen some classical interpretations, as well as contemporary ones. There were ones that I liked and also those that I endured till the end […]

A captivating, stylish revival of Don Pasquale

Irina Brook’s inspired and colourfully updated Don Pasquale has enjoyed annual revivals since its initiation in April 2015 with a fair selection of significant newcomers, often augmented – as on this occasion – by familiar faces in the cast.

Don Pasquale

“Brook has brought back to the repertoire after thirty years a fresh and cheeky production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale and transformed it into a kind of opera-cartoon which will give you the time of your life” Wilhelm Sinkovicz, Die Presse, Don Pasquale, Wiener Staatsoper When I work on a production, what matters most to me […]