Don Pasquale

The Vienna Opera produced Don Pasquale and I am studying it currently. The composer wrote this opera in less than three weeks late in his life just after having deep loss.  His wife, whom he adored passed from cholera and their two children died young. It was Donizetti's sixty-ninth opera. I am listening now as I write. One of the things I am enjoying is how there is far more music than talking although the libretto I have here in my hand suggests otherwise...in Italian and English translation. I never knew opera was so sexy. It is such deep and off the cuff romance. It is a comedy but I fear I will not know where to laugh.  The soprano's voice is time stompingly beautiful. This version of the opera was conducted by Istvan Kertesz and was recorded in 1965. I am having a vinyl experience here.