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Conductor

José Luis Moscovich

Stage director

Ragnar Conde

Set designer

Peter Crompton

Costume designer

Abra Berman

Video designer

Frederic Boulay

Lighting designer

Steve Mannshardt

Sound designer

Giselle Lee

Singer

Baritone

Richard Zeller

Sir John Falstaff

Krassen Karagiozov

Ford

Soprano

Taylor Haines

Mrs. Alice Ford

Anastasia Malliaras

Nannette

Mezzo-soprano

Veronica Jensen

Mrs. Meg Page

Contralto

Patrice Houston

Mrs. Quickly

Tenor

Dane Suarez

Fenton

Michael Mendelsohn

Doctor Caius

Michael Orlinsky

Bardolph

Bass

Kiril Havezov

Pistol

Silent

Carmello Tringali

Mine Host of the Garter Inn

West Bay Opera

Makeup artist

Lisa Cross

Hairstylist

Falstaff

Palo Alto

United States

Lucie Stern Theatre

Falstaff Verdi

Public

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Live performance at the Lucie Stern Theatre on Sunday, May 26, 2019. Ragnar Conde, Stage Director. José Luis Moscovich, Conductor. Sets and projections by Peter Crompton and Frederic Boulay. Costumes by Abra Berman.  Lighting by Steve Mannshardt. Makeup and wigs by Lisa Cross. Sound design by Giselle Lee. Props by Shirley Benson.

Falstaff was Verdi's second and last joint project with Arrigo Boito (the first was Otello), who adapted Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor into the libretto, also incorporating several scenes from Henry IV , parts 1 and 2.  The score is like nothing else he wrote. Verdi really captures the essence of Sir John Falstaff's character: a man so essentially full of himself that he manages to take credit even when he is the object of humiliating public ridicule. Verdi relished the opportunity to write a comic opera (only two of his twenty eight operas were comedies), and produced a witty, dynamic and elegant piece like no other in the entire operatic repertoire.

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