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I saw Don Pasquale by Donizetti at the Met Friday, April 7th.

The Met's production of Donizetti's Don Pasquale is  opera buffa is comedy at its best.  It is rare that something sung in a language foreign to most of the audience will bring a theatre to belly laughs – but it happened to us at the Met on Friday. 

The recent fashion at the Met for hiring young, attractive and dramatically talented singers pays off.  The sexy Russian Soprano Anna Netrebko stole the show and had many of us swooning when she sang seated on the edge of the orchestra pit dangling her legs above the brass section.  The number of times that I or someone seated around me said, “Damn that was good” at the end of an aria shows just how powerful the talents of Netrebko and Peruvian Tenor Juan Diego Flórez really are.

Don Pasquale has not been in the Metropolitan Opera repertoire for quite some time.  As a matter of fact it was the first time I had seen it.  I would highly recommend seeing this production.  This is a performance not to be missed. There are still six more performances with the cast I saw and apparently only the Saturday performance is sold out.  Get there while you can.