SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — We’ve all met a Don Pasquale: at best bumblingly ineffectual, at worst leeringly prurient. We’ve all had a Dr. Malatesta dupe us, or try to. We may have been one, or both. We ...

Opera Saratoga's production of "Don Pasquale." SARATOGA SPRINGS — Although there are only four characters in “Don Pasquale,” they easily get themselves worked up and tangled up in high pitched drama.

Looking back to various “golden ages” in the Metropolitan Opera’s past—say, the 1950s when Richard Tucker, Zinka Milanov and Leonard Warren trod the boards; or period right around World War I when ...

ACT ONE begins in Don Pasquale's home. He's a rich old bachelor and has just had a quarrel with Ernesto, his nephew and heir. Ernesto is in love with Norina, who is young and beautiful — but poor.

The story concerns old and wealthy bachelor Don Pasquale, who has been the caretaker of his nephew, Ernesto, for some time. Pasquale attempts to secure Ernesto's future by arranging a marriage between ...

Where: Lake Coeur d'Alene; board at the Coeur d'Alene Resort's marina; check-in starts at 6 p.m. Cost: Individual tickets start at $85 Info: inlandnwopera.com. Note: Sunday's cruise is sold out ...

Scott Schoonover and his Union Avenue Opera have a long history (now twenty-nine years) of gathering remarkable operatic voices. Their current production of Donizetti’s Don Pasquale has voices that ...