Back دون باسكوالى ARZ Don Pasquale Catalan Don Pasquale Czech Don Pasquale German Δον Πασκουάλε (Ντονιτσέττι) Greek Don Pasquale Spanish Don Pasquale Estonian Don Pasquale Basque دون پاسکوال Persian Don Pasquale Finnish
| Don Pasquale | |
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| Opera buffa by Gaetano Donizetti | |
 Luigi Lablache as Dulcamara in L'elisir d'amore (1832). | |
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| Language | Italian |
| Premiere | 3 January 1843 Théâtre-Italien, Paris |
Don Pasquale (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdɔm paˈskwaːle]) is a Gaetano Donizetti opera buffa, or comic opera, in three acts, 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[1] 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,[2] 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".[3]
The opera was first performed on 3 January 1843 by the Théâtre-Italien at the Salle Ventadour in Paris with great success[4] and it is generally regarded as being the high point of the 19th century opera buffa tradition as well as marking its ending.