Teatro Alla Scala: Don Pasquale

The female of the species is more deadly than the male in Davide Livermore’s staging of Gaetano Donizetti’s frothy opera buffa, broadcast live from the historic Teatro alla Scala opera house in Milan under the baton of conductor Riccardo Chailly. When rich uncle Don Pasquale forbids the marriage of Ernesto and penniless Norina, she joins forces with physician Dr Malatesta to give the wealthy old man a dose of his own medicine.