Don Pasquale – review

GlyndebourneIn an age in which operatic updating is prevalent, Donizetti's Don Pasquale has become a kind of exception to the rule by being occasionally transposed backwards in time rather than forwards. Given in contemporary dress at its 1843 premiere, it's traditionally set in the mid-19th century. But in 2004, Jonathan Miller turned it into a Restoration comedy at Covent Garden, and now we have Mariame Clément's Glyndebourne on Tour version, which re-imagines it as a cynical 18th-century dra...

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