Don pasquale at the metropolitan opera1/12/2023 ![]() Simon Boccanegra is anything but light, of course, but whatever their relative densities, I saw both operas at the Met at the beginning of February, 2011. I think it is simply considered too lightweight an opera to merit numerous performances. ![]() It is a delightful piece and many of its productions were paired with shorter operas and at times ballets. Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale which is also on the boards this season at the Met has been performed 131 times there. Now compare that with La Boheme which has been performed 1229 times and counting and you get a sense of which opera sells those expensive tickets. ![]() The Canadian Opera Company produced it two years ago after ignoring it for thirty years and the Metropolitan Opera has only performed it 139 times in its history. Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra has never been completely ignored but it has not been on the boards with any frightful regularity either. ![]() OPERAS WITH DIFFERENT DENSITIES BUT SIMILAR RESULTS ![]()
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