Organization

Wagner in Budapest

Conductor

Daniele Rustioni

Singer

Soprano

Hera Hyesang Park

Nannette

Ailyn Pérez

Mrs. Alice Ford

Contralto

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Mrs. Quickly

Mezzo-soprano

Jennifer Johnson Cano

Mrs. Meg Page

Tenor

Bogdan Volkov

Fenton

Baritone

Michael Volle

Sir John Falstaff

Christopher Maltman

Ford

Stage director

Robert Carsen

Set designer

Paul Steinberg

Costume designer

Brigitte Reiffenstuel

Lighting designer

Peter van Praet

Müpa Budapest

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Falstaff

Budapest

Hungary

Festival Theatre

Falstaff Verdi

Public

Private

Approved

"Tutto declina”, meaning "everything is in decline”, is the complaint Falstaff delivers in the elderly Verdi's comic opera as he wriggles his way out of the Thames, and this pessimistic line is often quoted in agreement by both amateur and professional critics of the opera world alike. And yet it is iconic productions of Falstaff themselves that regularly refute this sad opinion. This staging by Robert Carsen is particularly special, as it is the result of a completely new type of wide-ranging international collaboration between, along with the Met, La Scala, Covent Garden, Amsterdam's Dutch National Opera and the Toronto Opera Company. It can also without a doubt be considered a refutation of the state of decline that this performance being broadcast to the world will be conducted by Daniele Rustioni, who, still short of his 40th birthday, is perhaps the most promising Verdi conductor of the new generation. Of course, it is not only in the orchestra pit that there will be young, emerging talent: we will also find it on the stage in the form of South Korean soprano Hera Hyesang Park, who has been chosen to play Nannetta, and Ukrainian-born Russian tenor Bogdan Volkov, who will sing Fenton. In any case, it would be foolish to miss out on this Falstaff on April Fools' Day.

English

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Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer