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Baritone

Ambrogio Maestri

Sir John Falstaff

Juan Jesús Rodríguez

Ford

Soprano

Ailyn Pérez

Mrs. Alice Ford

Helena Dix

Golda Schultz

Nannette

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnson Cano

Mrs. Meg Page

Contralto

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Mrs. Quickly

Tenor

Francesco Demuro

Fenton

Tony Stevenson

Doctor Caius

Keith Jameson

Bardolph

Bass

Richard Bernstein

Pistol

Conductor

Richard Farnes

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Gina Lapinski

Set designer

Paul Steinberg

Costume designer

Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Falstaff

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

The crowning achievement of Giuseppe Verdi’s 55-year career in the theater, Falstaff is the Italian composer’s 26th opera but only his second comedy. In bringing Shakespeare’s rapacious Sir John Falstaff—a character found in the Bard’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, parts I and II—to the operatic stage, Verdi created one of the art form’s greatest comic characters, and in this performance from the 2018–19 season, baritone Ambrogio Maestri delivers a memorable performance as the larger-than-life knight. In his Met debut run, conductor Richard Farnes leads a world-class ensemble of artists, including Ailyn Pérez and Juan-Jesús Rodriguez as the Fords, Golda Schultz and Francesco Demuro as the smitten young couple Nannetta and Fenton, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as the scheming Mistress Quickly.

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