Falstaff

Falstaff (1993)

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.

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  • Release Date: 1993-01-01
  • Runtime: 2h 6min
  • Directors: Franco Zeffirelli, Brian Large.

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Cast

  • Mirella Freni

    Alice Ford

  • Barbara Bonney

    Nannetta

  • Paul Plishka

    Sir John Falstaff

  • Bruno Pola

    Ford

  • Marilyn Horne

    Mistress Quickly

  • Frank Lopardo

    Fenton

  • Piero De Palma

    Dr. Cajus

  • Anthony Laciura

    Bardolfo

  • James Courtney

    Pistola

  • Susan Graham

    Meg Page

  • James Levine

    Self - Conductor

  • Carole Wright

    Mistress of the Inn

  • Tim Willson

    The Innkeeper

  • MET Orchestra

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