Name: Falstaff
Start: 2009-05-21T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2009-07-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opera House

Organization

Bariton

Christopher Purves

Sir John Falstaff

Sopran

Dina Kuznetsova

Mrs. Alice Ford

Tassis Christoyannis

Ford

Mezzosopran

Jennifer Holloway

Mrs. Meg Page

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

Mrs. Quickly

Adriana Kučerová

Ännchen

Tenor

Bülent Bezdüz

Fenton

Peter Hoare

Doktor Cajus

Alasdair Elliott

Bardolph

Bass

Paolo Battaglia

Pistol

Dirigat

Vladimir Jurowski

Regie

Richard Jones

Kostümbild

Ultz

Bühnenbild

Chordirektion

Thomas Blunt

Others

The Glyndebourne Chorus

Orchestra

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Glyndebourne

Glyndebourne Festival

Italienisch

Falstaff

Vereinigtes Königreich

Opera House

Ebert Room

Lewes

Falstaff in Richard Jones' delightful production for the Glyndebourne Festival.

Although it contains elements of tragic heroism, typical of Verdi’s operas, it is comedy that is very much to the fore in Falstaff. No aria di bravura is to be found, as would be the case in Bellini's or Puccini's works. In Falstaff, Verdi uses the music to simply hold the storyline together.

Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is a shallow, vain and pitiful character, not a hero. It is the women in the story who are the true heroes. They trick the lustful Fasltaff and Mrs Quickly best expresses the moral of the story: women are cunning as a fox!

Falstaff Verdi

Public

Englisch

Genehmigt

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