Falstaff (1993)
2h 6m
Running Time
January 1, 1993Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.

Mirella Freni
Alice Ford

Barbara Bonney
Nannetta

Paul Plishka
Sir John Falstaff

Bruno Pola
Ford

Marilyn Horne
Mistress Quickly

Frank Lopardo
Fenton

Piero De Palma
Dr. Cajus

Anthony Laciura
Bardolfo

James Courtney
Pistola

Susan Graham
Meg Page

James Levine
Self - Conductor / Conductor / Art Direction

Carole Wright
Mistress of the Inn

Tim Willson
The Innkeeper

Arrigo Boito
Writer

Franco Zeffirelli
Director / Production Design / Set Designer

Giuseppe Verdi
Original Music Composer

Gil Wechsler
Lighting Design

Paul Mills
Stage Director

William Burdick
Choreographer

Joseph Volpe
General Manager

Brian Large
Director

Louisa Briccetti
Producer

Daniel Anker
Producer

Susan Erben
Production Assistant

Ron Washburn
Technical Supervisor

Bill King
Sound Supervisor

Jessica Ruskin
Production Assistant

Victoria Warivonchik
Production Secretary

MET Orchestra
Media.

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