Falstaff

Falstaff (1993)

7.5 126 min Movie
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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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Cast

Mirella Freni Mirella Freni Alice Ford
Barbara Bonney Barbara Bonney Nannetta
Paul Plishka Paul Plishka Sir John Falstaff
Bruno Pola Bruno Pola Ford
Marilyn Horne Marilyn Horne Mistress Quickly
Frank Lopardo Frank Lopardo Fenton
Piero De Palma Piero De Palma Dr. Cajus
Anthony Laciura Anthony Laciura Bardolfo
James Courtney James Courtney Pistola
Susan Graham Susan Graham Meg Page
James Levine James Levine Self - Conductor
Carole Wright Carole Wright Mistress of the Inn

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