Don Pasquale Schools Opera Night

Schools Opera Night at the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival's production of Donizetti's classic comedy, Don Pasquale

Blackwater Valley Opera Festival’s production of Donizetti’s classic comedy, Don Pasquale, performed in the magical setting of the Old Stable Yard at Lismore Castle.  A tale of love, intrigue, money and some artful manoeuvres.

Don Pasquale: Michael Govi
Malatesta:   Emmett O’Hanlon
Ernesto: Manuel Nunez Camelino
Artistic Director:   Dieter Kaegi,
Director: Pierre Emmanuel Roussesu,

With the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival Chorus

Conductor: Darren Hargan
Norina:   Aoife Gibney
Carlion:   Sandra Oman

Schools Opera Night

The Blackwater Valley Opera Festival provides local school children with access to the Dress Rehearsal, to help awaken their appreciation of opera as an art form and to build the audiences of the future. BVOF provides many children with their first experience of opera and the response has been overwhelmingly positive.