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

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

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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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!

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
Jennifer Holloway | Meg Page
Marie-Nicole Lemieux | Mistress Quickly
Adriana Kucerová | Nannetta
Bülent Bezdüz | Fenton
Peter Hoare | Dr Caius
Alasdair Elliott | Bardolph

The Glyndebourne Chorus
Thomas Blunt | Chorus director

London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski | Music director

Program

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"

Details

Directed by:
- François Roussillon
Venue: Glyndebourne (Lewes, Great Britain)
Production date: 2009
Duration: 2 h 07 min
Production: © ZDF – Glyndebourne Enterprises Ltd – François Roussillon et Associés
Available version(s): EN