Don Pasquale / Gaetano Donizetti ; libretto, Giovanni Domenico Ruffini ; TV director, Felix Breisach ; a production of the Zürich Opera House, Universal Music, Felix Breisach Medienwerkstatt, TV Technology, TPC and Clasart.
Comic opera in 3 acts, based on Angelo Anelli's Ser Marc'Antonio. Ruggero Raimondi (Don Pasquale) ; Juan Diego Flórez (Ernesto) ; Oliver Widmer (Dottor Malatesta) ; Isabel Rey (Norina) ; Valeriy Murga (Notaro) ; Thomas von Grünigen (Don Pasquale's major-domo) ; Elsbeth Treichler, Alex Minder (Servants of Don Pasquale) ; Renata Blum (Norina's friend) ; Aneel Soomary (Street trumpeter) ; Chorus and Orchestra of the Opernhaus Zürich ; Nello Santi, conductor. Recorded at the Zürich Opera House in 2006. Picture format 16:9, anamorphic, NTSC. Booklet with program notes by Kenneth Chalmers in English with French and German translations and synopsis by Jean-Claude Poyet in French with English and German translations (26 pages) inserted in container. Special features: trailers.
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