Organization

Singer

Baritone

Nicola Alaimo

Sir John Falstaff

Simone Piazzola

Ford

Soprano

Ailyn Pérez

Mrs. Alice Ford

Contralto

Sara Mingardo

Mrs. Quickly

Tenor

Antonio Garés

Bardolph

Stage director

Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Lighting designer

Alex Brok

Costume designer

Kevin Pollard

Set designer

Julian Crouch

Video designer

Joshua Higgason

Chorus master

Lorenzo Fratini

Christian Collia

Doctor Caius

Mezzo-soprano

Caterina Piva

Mrs. Meg Page

Bass

Gianluca Buratto

Pistol

Xabier Anduaga

Fenton

Francesca Boncompagni

Nannette

Fondazione del Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Others

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Orchestra

Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Taljan

Falstaff

Florence

Italy

Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Sala Grande

“Falstaff” is the only comic opera, as well as the last opera, of Verdi’s production. At 1893 “Falstaff” made his debut at the Teatro alla Scala accompanied by a great success. “Falstaff’s” score abounds in musical experimentation like the pseudo-symphonic sonata-form that opens the first act, the fugue buffa that closes the opera.

“Falstaff” is the work of an amusing and amused Verdi. After all, as the final theme reads: “Everything in the world is a joke. Man was born a joker”. In this way John Eliot Gardiner together with stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf are congenial to this witty opera after Shakespeare.

Falstaff Verdi

Public

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Approved

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