Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)

Overview

This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. The staging thought up by Italian director Damiano Michieletto moves the action from a fictitious London to that special care home, the Casa Verdi, a place rich in memories of great days past and impressions of a real-time present. Ambrogio Maestri seems a tailor-made Falstaff. His physique is just right for the part, as are his powerful voice, flair for drama and feeling for the Verdi style. (New York Times)

Directed by Karina Fibich

Top cast

Ambrogio Maestri

Sir John Falstaff

Massimo Cavalletti

Ford

F

Fiorenza Cedolins

Mrs. Alice Ford

Eleonora Buratto

Nannetta

Stephanie Houtzeel

Mrs. Meg Page

E

Elisabeth Kulman

Mrs. Quickly

Javier Camarena

Fenton

L

Luca Casalin

Dottor Cajus

G

Gianluca Sorrentino

Bardolfo

D

Davide Fersini

Pistola

Zubin Mehta

Self - Conductor

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