Barbara Paterson, as Ernesto, and Craig Beardsworth, as Malatesta, in Don Pasquale coming to the Royal Wanganui Opera House next week.
Wanderlust Opera is coming to the Royal Wanganui Opera House with their touring opera, Don Pasquale by Donizetti.
The company, started by soprano Georgia Jamieson Emms, performs fully-staged operas with shorter running times and quirky new English translations.
This is their third touring opera under the direction of Jacqueline Coats,
acclaimed for her recent La Boheme for NZ Opera, and musical director Bruce Greenfield, well-known to Whanganui audiences for his decades-long involvement with NZ Opera School and Whanganui Opera Week.
In the sparkling Donizetti comedy, a miserly bachelor (Stuart Coats in the title role) gets more than he bargained for when he enters into an arranged marriage with Norina (Georgia Jamieson Emms, who also wrote the English libretto).
The aim of Wanderlust Opera is to take small-scale professional opera outside the major cities and make the art form accessible and affordable.
