Falstaff

Falstaff by Franco Zeffirelli

8.20

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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Cast

Mirella Freni

Mirella Freni as Alice Ford

Barbara Bonney

Barbara Bonney as Nannetta

Paul Plishka

Paul Plishka as Sir John Falstaff

Bruno Pola

Bruno Pola as Ford

Marilyn Horne

Marilyn Horne as Mistress Quickly

Frank Lopardo

Frank Lopardo as Fenton

Piero De Palma

Piero De Palma as Dr. Cajus

Anthony Laciura

Anthony Laciura as Bardolfo

James Courtney

James Courtney as Pistola

Susan Graham

Susan Graham as Meg Page

James Levine

James Levine as Self - Conductor

Carole Wright

Carole Wright as Mistress of the Inn

Tim Willson

Tim Willson as The Innkeeper

MET Orchestra

MET Orchestra as

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