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Donizetti: Don Pasquale / Wallberg, Popp, Araiza, Weikl

Release Date: 06/19/2014
Label: Eurodisc Catalog #: 7790 Spars Code: ADD
Composer:  Gaetano Donizetti Performer:  Francisco Araiza ,  Lucia Popp ,  Bernd Weikl ,  Peter Lika  ...  Conductor:  Heinz Wallberg Orchestra/Ensemble:  Bavarian Radio Chorus ,  Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra Number of Discs: 2
Recorded in: Stereo Length: 1 Hours 58 Mins.

If Mosè is Rossini uncharacteristically serious, Don Pasquale is Donizetti almost as uncharacteristically comic. But the opera is a charmer, and while this performance is frisky and well sung, it is almost defiantly unidiomatic with its German, Mexican and Russian principals.

-- John Rockwell, The New York Times [5/16/1982] [5/16/1982] Read less