Falstaff

Release Date: 1987-10-16

Overview: Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito.

Rating: 0 / 10

Cast

José van Dam

as Sir John Falstaff

Laurence Dale

as Fenton

Mario Luperi

as Piltol