![]() ![]() New to the group? The members already have a singles album thanks to an ambitious undertaking they completed two years ago. It’s an indie-rock band from Chicago: Twin Peaks. (MV)ģ) No, it’s not a David Lynch marathon. Conductor Gary Thor Wedow will keep the orchestra in tune, and Pittsburgh Opera has soprano Lisette Oropesa singing Norina, with bass Kevin Glavin as Don Pasquale, tenor Javier Abreu as Ernesto, and baritone Joshua Hopkins as Malatesta. So the only recourse is to make him holler uncle, and hoo boy, does that happen, to the tune of more comical music than you can shake a conductor’s baton at. ![]() Headache.” Beautiful Norina actually wants to marry Pasquale’s earnest young nephew, Ernesto, but Uncle Pasquale won’t allow it. Malatesta, which translates roughly as “Dr. The mastermind behind the plot to trick the aging Pasquale is his physician, Dr. Don Pasquale, by Gaetano Donizetti and librettist Giovanni Ruffini, has been delivering the hijinks since its 1843 premiere in Paris. Except he never suspects that the young woman is tricking him into doing what’s right. Don Pasquale (bass Kevin Glavin, rear) has been tricked, but he winds up making two young lovers very happy, as soprano Lisette Oropesa and tenor Javier Abreu demonstrate in Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘Don Pasquale.’ (photo: David Bachman Photography)Ģ) There’s no opera like comic opera, and Pittsburgh Opera segues into springtime with a classic about a loopy old man who attempts a winter-spring marriage. ![]()
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