Falstaff
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.
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Mirella Freni
Alice Ford
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Barbara Bonney
Nannetta
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Paul Plishka
Sir John Falstaff
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Boris Godounov
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Bruno Pola
Ford
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Marilyn Horne
Mistress Quickly
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Carmen Jones
Frank Lopardo
Fenton
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La Traviata
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Piero De Palma
Dr. Cajus
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Cavalleria rusticana / I Pagliacci
Verdi: Falstaff
Anthony Laciura
Bardolfo
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Boardwalk Empire
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James Courtney
Pistola
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Susan Graham
Meg Page
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James Levine
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Carole Wright
Mistress of the Inn
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Franco Zeffirelli Director · Brian Large Director Arrigo Boito Writer
United States release January 1, 1993 · Produced in United States
Production
Deutsche Grammophon
Production
United States
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Original language
Italian
Spoken on screen
Italian
Release dates
United States · January 1, 1993
Theatrical
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