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Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff

I, 1: "Falstaff!"

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: "Io l'amo e lei non m'ama"

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

II, 1: "È sogno? o realtà?"

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

Richard Jones (stage director), Vladimir Jurowski (conductor) – With Christopher Purves (Falstaff), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mistress Quickly), Jennifer Holloway (Meg Page)...

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Cast

Richard Jones — Stage director

Ultz — Set designer

Mimi Jordan Sherin — Lighting

Linda Dobell — Movement director

Christopher Purves — Falstaff

Dina Kuznetsova — Alice Ford

Tassis Christoyannis — Ford

Program notes

Falstaff in Richard Jones' delightful production for the Glyndebourne Festival.

Although it contains elements of tragic heroism, typical of Verdi’s operas, it is comedy that is very much to the fore in Falstaff. No aria di bravura is to be found, as would be the case in Bellini's or Puccini's works. In Falstaff, Verdi uses the music to simply hold the storyline together.

Drawing inspiration from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is a shallow, vain and pitiful character, not a hero. It is the women in the story who are the true heroes. They trick the lustful Fasltaff and Mrs Quickly best expresses the moral of the story: women are cunning as a fox!

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