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Published: September 20, 2001Just as Michael Douglas has his Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Tony Randall has a wife 50 years his junior, Don Pasquale has his Norina. In Gaetano Donizetti's opera about old men looking for love in all the wrong places, Don Pasquale convinces himself he merits a sexy young woman, despite his lumpy 70-year-old body.
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Opera in Havana
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Subject(s): Don Pasquale
Adding new life to this age-old story, stage director Sharyn Pirtle sets the performance (sung in Italian with English surtitles) in present-day Little Havana, Miami. Of course, taking chances is nothing new for Opera in the Heights, the tiny company putting on the production. It has experienced steroidlike growth since its inception in 1996, doubling performances each year in its first three seasons. The company has added trimmed-down hour-long performances, with a question-and-answer segment for families and for others looking for a short-attention-span-friendly introduction to opera.
Anyone interested in a scaled-down night at the opera can benefit from an OITH show. Lambert Hall's 300-seat venue is anything but intimidating, and even though OITH's shows do everything but skimp on production values to cut costs, the talent is prodigious. What's more, they have the endorsement of the city's operatic Goliath. In a recent letter to general director Reba Kochersperger, David Gockley of Houston Grand Opera called OITH "a training ground for new singers [and] new audiences -- to the benefit of us all and to the enrichment of Houston's cultural life."
A story about a horny old man seeking a beautiful young bride somehow benefits our cultural lives? Hey, why not. In the home state of Anna Nicole Smith, there could be no better choice than a story like this to open a season.
