Don Pasquale Study Guides
March 8, 2012
6:30pm - 8:15pm
Don Pasquale Elementary School Study Guide
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Don Pasquale Middle School Study Guide
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Don Pasquale High School Study Guide
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Study Questions for Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale
These study questions are to help you support your knowledge of Don Pasquale based on the video that you’ve just seen and to help you get to know the opera better. If you want, you might Google one of the questions or topics in order to broaden your knowledge of the opera. You will also find examples of the opera on You Tube: do a search for Donizetti, Don Pasquale. These examples are from productions of the opera all over the world and will show you how various opera companies deal with the sets, costumes and style of the opera.
- In what year was the opera Don Pasquale written?
- What was the name of the traditional Italian theatre that inspired the characters in Don Pasquale?
- Italian theatre had “stock characters” that everyone in the audience understood and identified easily. Can you think of some of the names of these characters?
- The San Diego Opera production of Don Pasquale has a very special setting. What is it?
- What is the style of music that Donizetti uses in this opera that features the beauty of the human voice and supportive music from the orchestra? (hint: it’s an Italian term)
- True or false: composers try to match the character of the music in an opera to the characters in the drama.
- Don Pasquale was one of the first operas Donizetti ever wrote. How old do you think Don Pasquale is?
- How old do you think Norina is?
- How do you translate the phrase, opera buffa?
- What is an opera buffa?