Join us at Hammond Hall for Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale with English subtitles on Saturday evening at 6 or on Sunday at 2pm. The opera focuses on the cunning Dr. Malatesta plotting to aid Ernesto and prevent his uncle, the miserly Don Pasquale, from squandering his inheritance. The opera will be conducted and directed by WHMF Executive Director, Deiran Manning and will feature the Downeast Chamber Orchestra. As the founder of the community opera program, Manning has been at the helm of over 8 local opera productions with this organization as well as the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of Maine and the University of Maine. The cast features grammy nominated bass-baritone Stephen Bryant. He has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, Houston Symphony, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, and BBC Scottish Symphony. He has sung with the San Francisco Opera, Netherlands Opera, and New York City Opera as well as many other regional companies in roles from Mozart’s Figaro to George in Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men. Henry Horstmann returns as Dr. Malatesta. In 2022, Horstmann as Figaro in WHMF's production of "Il barbiere di Siviglia" and was Count Almaviva in the 2023 production of "Le nozze di Figaro". Most recently, Henry was Strephon in the Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera of Long Island's production of Iolanthe, and was also a Peer and Lord Mountararat cover for the same show with Bronx Opera. WHMF veteran and Administrative Director, Joshua Gurwitz sings Ernesto. Mr. Gurwitz sang the Count in Rossini’s Barber of Seville, Don Basilio in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, and was tenor soloist in Handel’s Messiah. Lastly, newly minted soprano Gabriela Fagen is a multi-faceted vocal artist well versed in baroque, classical and bel canto styles. This year marks her return to the Winter Harbor Music Festival after appearing in last year’s production of Le Nozze di Figaro as Cherubino.