Talk:Don Pasquale

Language

What was the language of the first performance? -- kosboot (talk) 20:14, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Undoubtedly Italian. The cast was Italian. The librettists were Italian. The Théâtre-Italien was only allowed to present operas in Italian in 1843. But this is not a bad question. I have been looking at a number of sources, and so far have not found one that states explicitly that the language was Italian. (Perhaps they feel it is totally obvious.) --Robert.Allen (talk) 20:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

The libretto was translated into French by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz for the Belgian premiere at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie later in 1843, so I also would say that the original performance was in Italian. Voceditenore (talk) 07:46, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

I realize now, from working on another article, that I stated incorrectly that the Théâtre-Italien could only present operas in Italian. Actually, although the Napoleonic decrees of 1806 and 1807 prohibited them from presenting operas in French, they could present operas in other languages, e.g., Weber's Der Freischütz was presented in the original German in 1829. The restrictions on theatres having to do with genre and languare were not officially lifted until 1864, during the Second Empire. --Robert.Allen (talk) 11:53, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

First Performance

There seem to be two different dates/casts cited here for the first performance. One of them was undoubtedly before the other but perhaps somebody could clarify the situation. 146.90.79.112 (talk) 22:01, 10 November 2012 (UTC)

His 64th or 63rd?

The article says it's his 64th, but the Donizetti Society's listing states that it was completed in 1842, whereas Caterina Cornaro, Maria di Rohan and Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal were all completed in 1843. --Stfg (talk) 20:16, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

More music

I suggest to include the file at right.Anythingyouwant (talk) 02:11, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

Accursi?

Intro says

... an Italian libretto completed largely by Giovanni Ruffini as well as the composer. It was based on a libretto by Angelo Anelli for Stefano Pavesi's opera Ser Marcantonio written in 1810^{[Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 244]} but, on the published libretto, the author appears as "M.A."

Donizetti so dominated the preparation of the libretto that Ruffini refused to allow his name to be put on the score. This resulted in confusion over the identity of the librettist for more than half a century,^{[Ashbrook 1982, p. 174]} but as Herbert Weinstock establishes, it was largely Ruffini's work and, in withholding his name from it as librettist, "Donizetti or Accursi may have thought that, lacking Ruffini's name, the authorship might as well be assigned to Accursi's initials as to a pseudonym".^{[Weinstock 1963, p. 363]}

Who's Accursi? He seems to just pop up out of the woodwork with no previous mention. I've inserted a brief description into the text, put an anchor on the 2nd paragraph of Performance history where Accursi is identified, and linked the description to it.

--Thnidu (talk) 18:48, 7 October 2017 (UTC)