Event Title:

Organization:

  Music

  New York City

Start Date:

  5/22/2012

End Date:

  5/24/2012

Start Time:

  6:00 pm

End Time:

  8:15 pm

Event Info: 

  Underworld Productions Opera (www.underworldprod.com) will present "Don Pasquale & His Trophy Wife," an interpretation of Donizetti's 1843 opera buffa, in two site-specific locations May 22 to 24. Performances will be Tuesday, May 22 at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU, 24 W. 12th Street, and Wednesday and Thursday, May 23 and 24, at Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium, 417 E. 61st Street. The work is directed by Artistic Director Gina Crusco, who is amassing much street cred as a "plot doctor" for classical operas. She re-envisions Don Pasquale not as an elderly bachelor but a married man who would throw over his aging Signora and make the beautiful, much younger Norina his "trophy wife." Signora Pasquale disguises herself as the sham Notary to complete the deception that is played on the old man, revealing the true moral of the story in the final Rondo.


WHERE AND WHEN:
May 22, 6:00 pm (note unusual curtain time), Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU
24 W. 12th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. With piano, limited to 50, reservations required.
Transportation: F to 14th Street, L to 6th Avenue, 1, 2, 3 to 14th Street..
May 23-24, 7:30 pm (note unusual curtain time), Abigail Adams Smith Auditorium, 417 E. 61st Street between First and York Avenues. With orchestra.
Transportation: F to Lexington/63rd Street, 4-5-6 to 59th Street, First Avenue Bus to 62nd Street. Convenient parking lot across the street.
Tickets: $45/$40 students, seniors. Includes refreshments.
Box office: www.underworldprod.com and Brown Paper Tickets 24/7 Phone: 1-800-838-3006
Running time: 2:15.
Critics are invited to the May 23 and 24 performances.

Location:

  Casa Italiana Zerilli

Room:

Address:

  24 W. 12th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. 10 011

Phone:

City:

  New york

State/Province:

  NY