Falstaff (1993)

  • G
  • 01/01/1993 (US)
  • Music
  • 2h 6m

Overview

It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.

Arrigo Boito

Writer

Franco Zeffirelli

Director

Brian Large

Director

Cast

Mirella Freni's headshot

Mirella Freni

Alice Ford
Barbara Bonney's headshot

Barbara Bonney

Nannetta
Paul Plishka's headshot

Paul Plishka

Sir John Falstaff
Bruno Pola's headshot

Bruno Pola

Ford
Marilyn Horne's headshot

Marilyn Horne

Mistress Quickly
Frank Lopardo's headshot

Frank Lopardo

Fenton
Piero De Palma's headshot

Piero De Palma

Dr. Cajus
Anthony Laciura's headshot

Anthony Laciura

Bardolfo

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