﻿ Pasquale Post-Show Discussion   • Don Pasquale Post-Show
Discussion  The Wrong Trousers? A Discussion of Set and Costumes
Students will enjoy starting the class with an open discussion
of the Met performance. What did they like? What didn’t they?
Did anything surprise them? What would they like to see or hear
again? What would they have done differently? This discussion
will offer students an opportunity to review the notes on their
My Highs & Lows sheet, as well as their thoughts about the set
design in this Met production—in short, to see themselves as Don
Pasquale experts.  In the Extreme Makeover Performance Activity
for Don Pasquale, students paid close attention to Rolf
Langenfass’s design for this production. The set and costumes
place the production in a 19th-century European setting, the era
when the opera was written and in which it is traditionally set.
But much against Donizetti’s will, its first production in 1843
was set in the 18th century. The composer argued against
dressing his singers