 The National Opera House in Bucharest invites you to the last premiere of this season, the performance “Don Pasquale” by Gaetano Donizetti, which will take place on Saturday, 30th of May at 6:30 p.m. The opera buffa “Don Pasquale” by Gaetano Donizetti was composed in 1842 and was performed for the first time the next year, in Paris. A remarkable masterpiece from a musical and dramatic point of view, “Don Pasquale” is one of the last works of the genre in a glorious epoch of over half a century, not only in Italy, but also in most European countries, bearing the powerful influence of the Italian culture. The first staging of “Don Pasquale” in Bucharest took place in 1910 (before the founding of the Romanian Opera House as an institution, only in 1921). The second staging was achieved in the season 1968-1969, directed by Jean Rânzescu, under the baton of conductor Constantin Bugeanu. The cast included famous artists such as: Constantin Gabor, Eduard Tumagian, Lucian Marinescu, Valentin Teodorian, Elena Simionescu etc. This staging was resumed in the 80’s and was performed until the 90’s.
The National Opera House in Bucharest places this opera title on the posters, in a new direction signed by the young director Rares Zaharia. The scenography of the performance belongs to Adriana Urmuzescu. The NOB orchestra and choir, trained by Master Stelian Olariu, also contribute to the opera show. The performance will be conducted by Tiberiu Soare.
The casts presents, (in alphabetical order) the following artists: Sorin Draniceanu (a guest), Mihnea Lamatic (Don Pasquale), Florin Simionca, Vicentiu Taranu (Malatesta), Florin Ormenisan (a guest), Valentin Racoveanu (Ernesto), Irina Iordachescu, Mihaela Stanciu (Norina), Paul Basacopol, Vasile Chisiu (Notary).
Rares Zaharia was born in a family of artists. He studied piano and canto, and later art history in Bucharest (the University of Arts) and in Paris, at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, and afterwards at Sorbonne (he is currently studying for his PhD degree, with a thesis about “The Renaissance of the Antique Theater in Italy, starting from Orfeo de Poliziano to Orfeo de Monteverdi”). He has lived in Paris since 2003.
In 2006, he worked as the assistant of Irina Brook (the daughter of the famous director Peter Brook), with whom he collaborated for the opera "Giulio Cesare in Egitto" by G. F. Haendel, at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris. In 2007, he becomes Silviu Purcarete’s assistant. He collaborated with the great Romanian director at the operas “Gianni Schicchi” by G. Puccini, at the Hungarian Theater in Cluj (October,2007), “Measure for Measure” by W. Shakespeare, at the National Theater in Craiova (March, 2008)and at the world premiere of the opera “Love and Other Demons” by Peter Eötvös, inspired by the short story About “Love and Other Demons” by Gabriel Garcia Márquez, at the prestigious Opera Festival in Glyndebourne (August, 2008).
The next season, Silviu Purcarete entrusted him with resuming the performances “Evgheni Oneghin” by P. I. Ceaikovski at the Opera in Braunschweig (a performance created at the Opera in Bonn) and “Love and Other Demons”at the Opera in Cologne. In 2009, he was a semifinalist in the 5th edition of the International Opera Direction Competition, organized by Opera Europa and Camerata Nuova.
The performance “Don Pasquale” by Gaetano Donizetti, at the National Opera House in Bucharest, stands for his debut as a director.
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