Don Pasquale goes West at Utah Opera The Pinedale Fine Arts Council will be selling raffle tickets at its next event (Dallas Brass concert on March 18, 7:30 p.m.). Three winners will receive two tickets to the Utah Opera's performance of Don Pasquale on Saturday, May 16, 2009, at Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City. Winners will be announced at intermission of Dallas Brass show March 18.
Here’s more info about the opera from the PFAC web site:
While Don Pasquale is traditionally set in Rome, Utah Opera’s performance of Don Pasquale uses the Wild West as its backdrop. Don Pasquale is the story of an elderly, wealthy, (and miserly) bachelor who has no heir. To remedy the situation, he tries to persuade his young nephew Ernesto to accept an arranged marriage. Ernesto refuses to obey his uncle since his heart is already pledged to the glamorous yet penniless widow, Norina. In a fit of anger, Pasquale turns the tables on his nephew by disinheriting him and deciding to get married and produce an heir himself.
After a bewildering chain of events involving a little fraud and some bogus legal proceedings, the story ends well with true love conquering all—as we hope it always does.
The opera will be sung in Italian with English supertitles.
