For the seventh summer in a row, high art meets low humor at Featherstone Center for the Arts when Wendy Taucher Dance Opera Theater presents Gaetano Donizetti’s comic opera, Don Pasquale (No Fool Like an Old Fool), on July 28, July 29 and July 30.

“I describe it as Gilbert & Sullivan meets Bugs Bunny meets a family-friendly Saturday Night Live,” said Ms. Taucher, a choreographer and director based in West Tisbury and New York City.

She conceived of the Opera at Featherstone series as a way to entertain Vineyard audiences with the high jinks, ribaldry and physical comedy — not to mention the soaring music — of classical opera buffa by Donizetti, Mozart and Rossini. Don Pasquale, she said, is one of the best examples of these comic operas.

“They’re based on commedia dell’arte stories that have pretty fantastic and often comic twists and turns and fake identities, thwarted love — which eventually goes right — secret letters, et cetera,” Ms. Taucher said.

“They lend themselves to big, broad comedy, and the singing is exquisite. The composing is exquisite,” Ms. Taucher said.

Ms. Taucher adapts the comedies by cutting out the recitatives — speechlike songs that advance the plot of the opera in between arias — and replacing them with an extra, English-speaking character of her own creation who helps audiences understand the Italian lyrics and what’s happening on stage.

Last year’s Barber of Seville at Featherstone, with baritone Justin Ryan subtly channeling Bugs Bunny as Figaro, was narrated in English by Donavon Dietz, an actor and frequent member of Ms. Taucher’s troupe.

Don Pasquale’s interpreter will be mezzo-soprano Erika Person, last seen as the Maid in Barber of Seville, in the role of on-the-spot news reporter Mindy Tashmoo.

“She does color commentary and also interviews each of the characters,” Ms. Taucher said.

Thus abridged, Don Pasquale runs an hour and a half and is presented without intermission, rain or shine, under Tilton tents on the Featherstone grounds.

The 1843 comedy of love, malice and deceit stars soprano Lisa Williamson, who wowed Featherstone audiences as one of the battling divas in 2015’s Impresario Now!, as Norina, tenor Spencer Hamlin as Ernesto, baritone Daniel Scofield as Malatesta and bass-baritone Andrew Bogard as Pasquale. 

Music direction and piano accompaniment are by longtime company conductor Ed Bak, who also collaborated with Ms. Taucher and several Islanders on the major site-specific piece Key West Reverie in April.

The company stage manager is Island soprano Olivia de Geofroy, a senior at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J.

Opening night, July 28, begins at 6 p.m. followed by a gala catered dinner. The Saturday and Sunday performances are at 7 p.m.

For tickets and information, visit wendytaucherdanceoperatheater.com.