Verdi: Falstaff (DVD) – Nicola Alaimo
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Verdi: Falstaff (DVD) – Nicola Alaimo
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Artists: Nicola Alaimo, Simone Piazzola, Matthew Swensen, Ailyn Pérez, Francesca Boncompagni, Sara Mingardo, Caterina Piva, Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner
Director: Sven-Eric Bechtolf
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: Dolby Digital 5.1 / PCM 2.0
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English, German, French, Japanese
Region: All Regions
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Dynamic
Release Date: July 15, 2022
Run Time: 143 minutes
Falstaff was composed to a libretto fashioned by Arrigo Boito largely from Shakespeare’s play The Merry Wives of Windsor. Superficially, the work is an opera buffa in its depiction of the travails of the penniless knight, Sir John Falstaff, but goes beyond the operatic tradition of the time. The vocal line is integrated into the orchestral texture, and with self-quotations and parodic elements, the opera is saturated with as much irony as comedy, forming the fitting culmination of Verdi’s entire operatic life. Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts this acclaimed staging of Verdi’s final masterpiece.
History
Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff
Verdi's final opera, and the third of his stage works to be based on a Shakespeare play, premiered at Milan’s La Scala in 1893, a triumphal success for the almost 80-year-old composer. Baritone Victor Maurel, who sang the title role, reprised his performance in the opera’s U.S. premiere at the Met two years later. In the 2013–14 season, Music Director James Levine conducts a new production directed by Robert Carsen, the first new Met Falstaff since 1964.
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