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John Bishop

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Bryn Terfel

Sir John Falstaff

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Natalya Romaniw

Mrs. Alice Ford

David Stout

Ford

Chloe Morgan

Ännchen

Tenor

Luis Gomes

Fenton

Sara Fulgoni

Mrs. Quickly

Mezzosopran

Janis Kelly

Mrs. Meg Page

Marc Le Brocq

Doktor Cajus

Jeffrey Lloyd-Roberts

Bardolph

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Lukas Jakobski

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Gianluca Marcianò

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Stephen Medcalf

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Jamie Vartan

Grange Park Opera

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Falstaff

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Vereinigtes Königreich

Grange Park Opera, Surrey

As the saying goes, “Shakespeare invented him, Verdi made him immortal” – and, surely, it was Bryn Terfel who defined him. Terfel first sung Falstaff in 1999, and in 2021, the bass-baritone superstar returns once more to the role at Grange Park Opera. In a production by Stephen Medcalf first shown in the 17th century Farnese theatre in Parma in 2011 with designs that are truly Falstaffian including sensational backcloths by Italian supremo Rinaldo Rinaldi.

Natalya Romaniw, Janis Kelly and Sara Fulgoni are the conniving wives of Windsor in Verdi’s only comic opera, written when the composer was 80, contradicting the adage that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The opera is a hymn to the irrepressibility of the human spirit.

As Terfel himself says, “it’s just a joy to portray on the stage this loveable old rogue who can’t help but lie, eat, cheat and drink”.

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