A Buoyant Opera Buffa: Don Pasquale at Opera in the Heights
In the opera world circa 1840s and 1850s, there was only one who wore the mantle of Rossini, who retired in 1830 after his French grand opera William Tell, Gaetano Donizetti. Prodigious to the edge of craziness, he would write over 70 operas, some produced …