[Met Performance] CID:36520
Don Pasquale {14} Metropolitan Opera House: 01/6/1906.
Metropolitan Opera House
January 6, 1906
DON PASQUALE {14}
Donizetti-Ruffini
Don Pasquale............Arcangelo Rossi
Norina..................Marcella Sembrich
Ernesto.................Andreas Dippel
Dr. Malatesta...........Antonio Scotti
Notary..................Felice Foglia
Conductor...............Arturo Vigna
Director................Eugène Dufriche
[Due to the chorus strike, the scheduled Lohengrin performance had been changed to Don Pasquale. The New York Times reported on the performance: "The substitution of Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" for "Lohengrin" at the popular evening performance made necessary last Wednesday when it seemed as if there would be no chorus, was not at all a popular proceeding. The audience was a dismally small one, and several hundred people who had bought tickets for "Lohengrin" had their money refunded. It was a pity, in some ways, that the brilliant and sparkling performance of Donizetti's comedy should not have a greater appreciation. In it Mme. Sembrich gives some of her beautiful singing and bewitching comic acting, and the other singers give characteristic representations of their parts."]
Don Pasquale received four performances this season.