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Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff

I, 1: "Falstaff!"

I, 1: Ssss. "Sei polli: sei scellini"

I, 1: "So che se andiam"

I, 1: "V'è noto un tal"

I, 1: "L'Onore! Ladri!"

I, 1: "Ma, per tornare a voi"

I, 2: "Alice, Meg"

I, 2: "Fulgida Alice! Amor t'offro"

I, 2: "Quell'otre! quel tino!"

I, 2: "È un ribaldo, un furbo, un ladro"

I, 2: "Pst, pst, Nanetta"

I, 2: "Falstaff m'ha canzonetta"

I, 2: "Torno all'assalto"

I, 2: "Udrai quanta eglie sfoggia"

I, 2: "Del tuo barbaro diagnostico"

I, 2: "Qui più non si vagoli"

II, 1: "Siam pentiti e contriti"

II, 1: "Alice è mia!"

II, 1: "Padron; di là c'è un certo Maestro Fontana"

II, 1: "Signore, v'assista il cielo!"

II, 1: "È sogno? o realtà?"

II, 1: "Io l'amo e lei non m'ama"

II, 1: "Il diavolo se lo porti all'inferno"

II, 1: "Eccomi qua"

II, 2: "Presenteremo un bill, per una tassa"

II, 2: "Giunta all'Albergo della Giarrettiera"

II, 2: "Nannetta, e tu non ridi?"

II, 2: "Gaie comari di Windsor!"

II, 2: "Alfin t'ho colto"

II, 2: "Quand'ero paggio"

II, 2: "Mia signora!"

II, 2: "Il diavolo cavalca"

II, 2: "Vien qua"

II, 2: "Al ladro!"

II, 2: "Se t'agguanto!"

II, 2: "Ned! Will! Tom! Isaac!"

III, 1: "Ehi! Taverniere!"

III, 1: "Reverenza."

III, 1: "Legge"

III, 1: "Quando il rintocco"

III, 1: "Provvedi le lanterne"

III, 2: "Dal labbro il canto"

III, 2: "Nossignore!"

III, 2: "Una, due, tre, quattro"

III, 2: "Odo un soave passo!"

III, 2: "Ninfe! Elfi! Silfi!"

III, 2: "Sul fil d'un soffio etesio"

III, 2: "Alto là! - Chi va là?"

III, 2: "Ruzzola, ruzzola"

III, 2: "Naso vermiglio!"

III, 2: "Cavaliero - Reverenza"

III, 2: "Ogni sorta di gente dozzinale"

III, 2: "Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

III, 2: "Tutto nel mondo è burla"

Verdi's Falstaff

Ronald Eyre (stage director), Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor) – With Renato Bruson (Falstaff), Katia Ricciarelli (Alice Ford), Leo Nucci (Ford)...

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Cast

Ronald Eyre — Stage director

Hayden Griffin — Set designer

Michael Stennett — Costume designer

Jennifer Tipton — Lighting designer

David Toguri — Movement director

Renato Bruson — Falstaff

Katia Ricciarelli — Alice Ford

Program notes

This first-rate 1982 production of Verdi’s Falstaff  marked the great 20th century Italian maestro Carlo Maria Giulini's return to opera conducting after more than a decade's absence. Renato Bruson leads a brilliant cast as the lovable fat knight Sir John Falstaff, going toe to toe in a series of hijinks with Katia Ricciarelli (Alice Ford) and Brenda Boozer (Meg Page).

Falstaff brought Verdi’s brilliant career as an opera composer to a close with a burst of laughter. Resurrecting Mozartian opera buffa and bringing a beloved Shakespearean character back to the stage, the work's retrospection is tempered by its truly innovative construction, anticipating Strauss’s preferred idiom of “conversation through music” and favoring plot and character interactions over virtuosic showpieces. The tale begins when Sir John Falstaff, nicknamed “il Pancione” (Potbelly), comes up with the idea for what he expects to be an easy way to pay off his drinking debts: seducing two rich married women. Quickly discovering his trickery, the ladies in question plan vengeance, laying a trap for him and at the same time helping two young lovers outwit an overbearing father.

Photo: Renato Bruson and Katia Ricciarelli in Falstaff

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