Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff is an anarchist who only bows to the dominion of his own pleasure, an egoist who only indulges in his absolutist abundance of power and body and would like to grind down the narrow-minded moral concepts of his fellow human beings like the city walls of a fortress by having two women parallel to each other to seduce. Of course that goes wrong, but those who want to unmask him lose a lot of feathers in the confusion they stage around him - and which the viewer just about sees through. "Tutto nel mondo è burla," but these antics are only funny because falling into the abyss poses quite a serious risk. The "Otello" librettist Arrigo Boito has distilled a linguistically ingenious libretto from Shakespeare's template with finesse, which Verdi drives to highly complex compositional heights. Staging: Calixto Bieito Stage design: Susanne Gschwender Costumes: Anja Rabes Dramaturgy: Bettina Auer Lighting: Michael Bauer https://www.staatsoper-hamburg.de/,