Falstaff

Composer: Verdi, Giuseppe

Librettist/Text Author: Boito, Arrigo

Libretto Source: Shakespeare, William

Conductor: Solti, Georg

Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Chorus: Vienna State Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Balatsch, Norbert

Bardolfo: Maus, Peter

Dr. Cajus: Lanigan, John

Fenton: Cosotti, Max-Rene

Ford: Stilwell, Richard

Mrs. Alice Ford: Armstrong, Karan

Mrs. Meg Page: Lindenstrand, Sylvia

Mrs. Quickly: Szirmay, Marta

Nannetta: Ihloff, Jutta Renate

Pistola: Cold, Ulrik

Sir John Falstaff: Bacquier, Gabriel

Set Designer: Neumann, Jorg

Set Designer: Riccabona, Thomas

Costume Designer: Muller, Bernd

Stage Director: Friedrich, Gotz

Television Director: Friedrich, Gotz

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Date of Production: 1979

Playing Time: 02:08:46

Catalogue Number: A05005352

Libretto

Falstaff EN

Falstaff IT

Synopsis

Falstaff

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After an unparalleled succession of tragic operas, Verdi finished his operatic career with a comedy. It has a thread of intriguing musical cross-references and a great richness of musical resource, as well as subtle delineation of character. It has enchanting love music, too, but it is the depiction of Falstaff himself and the web of conspiracy around him that gives the opera its chief celebrity. Verdi's congenial librettist Arrigo Boito created a sparkling adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Henry IV." Falstaff was premiered in Milan in 1893.