Donizetti - Don Pasquale / József Gregor, Magda Kalmár, István Gáti, János Bándi, Ivan Fischer / Hungaroton 3x LP 1983 Stereo

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Don Pasquale (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdɔm paˈskwaːle]) is an opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti with an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera Ser Marcantonio written in 1810 but, on the published libretto, the author appears as "M.A."

Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score. This resulted in confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century, but as Herbert Weinstock establishes, it was largely Ruffini's work and, in withholding his name from it as librettist, "Donizetti or [his assistant] Accursi may have thought that, lacking Ruffini's name, the authorship might as well be assigned to Accursi's initials as to a pseudonym".

The opera was first performed on 3 January 1843 by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris with great success and it is generally regarded as being the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition and, in fact, marking its ending.

A Don Pasquale Gaetano Donizetti egyik háromfelvonásos vígoperája (opera buffa). A szövegkönyvét a zeneszerző és Giovanni Ruffini írták Angelo Anelli librettója nyomán, amelyet Stefano Pavesi Ser Marcantonio című operája számára írt (1810). A Don Pasquale Donizetti 64-ik operája. Ősbemutatójára 1843. január 3-án került sor a párizsi Théâtre Italienben.