Review: ‘Don Pasquale’ at San Francisco Opera (****1/2)
by Charles Kruger Donezetti’s “Don Pasquale” is often spoken with along with Rossini’s uncannily popular “The Barber of Seville” as one of the greatest exemplars of Italian comic opera. To summarize the plot: Don Pasquale is upset that his nephew rejects the Don’s choice of a bride, preferring to marry for love. The determined, though elderly, Don […]