Organization

Conductor

Axel Kober

Stage director

Michael Hampe

Set designer

John Gunther

Costume designer

Singer

Baritone

Ambrogio Maestri

Sir John Falstaff

Bogdan Baciu

Ford

Tenor

Andrés Sulbarán

Fenton

Johannes Preissinger

Doctor Caius

Cornel Frey

Bardolph

Bass

Torben Jürgens

Pistol

Soprano

Sylvia Hamvasi

Mrs. Alice Ford

Lavinia Dames

Nannette

Contralto

Renée Morloc

Mrs. Quickly

Mezzo-soprano

Anna Harvey

Mrs. Meg Page

Chorus master

Gerhard Michalski

Nathan Haller

Ralf Lange

John Gunter

Deutsche Oper am Rhein

Orchestra

Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra

Italian

Falstaff

Dusseldorf

Germany

Opernhaus Düsseldorf

Public

Private

German

Approved

In order to maintain his well-fed belly despite the yawning emptiness in his purse, the mischievous knight Falstaff writes identical love letters to two wealthy ladies. But they catch wind of the hoax.
"Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten" - with these probably most beautiful last words on stage, the 80-year-old Giuseppe Verdi retired in 1893 and at the end of his opera career composed a musical comedy based on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" that was as unconventional as it was enchanting.

English

Um trotz gähnender Leere im Geldbeutel seinen wohlgenährten Bauch zu erhalten, schreibt der schlitzohrige Ritter Falstaff gleichlautende Liebesbriefe
an zwei wohlhabende Damen. Doch die kriegen Wind von dem Schwindel. „Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten“ – mit diesen wohl schönsten allerletzten Bühnenworten verabschiedete sich der 80-jährige Giuseppe Verdi 1893 in den Ruhestand und komponierte am Ende seiner Opernlaufbahn nach Shakespeares „Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor“ noch eine ebenso unkonventionelle wie hinreißende Musikkomödie.

Deutsch

Falstaff by Verdi, From (2022/2022), Directed by Michael Hampe,, Conductor Axel Kober, Ralf Lange, Opernhaus Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

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