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Scene from: Falstaff

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

Falstaff was Verdi's last opera and the climax of his career. Completed in 1893, when the composer was almost 80, it is also the culmination of Italian comic opera. Librettist Arrigo Boito took the substance of the piece from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, but the central character, who embroils himself in numerous plots and dupes of love and marriage until eventually the Merry Wives get their revenge on him, is much closer to the Falstaff of Henry I. The jokes are at the expense not of a buffoon but with an underlying streak of melancholy. In this Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie de Bruxelles production, recorded during the 1987 Aix-en-Provence Festival, the title role is sung by bass-baritone José Van Dam, a genuine actor as well as a consummate singer, as the role demands.

Cast:
Sir John Falstaff - José Van Dam
Ford - William Stone
Alice Ford -Barabara Madra
Mistress Quickly - Livia Budai
Mistress Page - Benedetta Pecchioli,
Fenton - Laurence Dale
Nannetta - Elizbieta Szmytka
Bardolph - Franco Careccia
Pistol - Mario Luperi
Doctor Caius - Ugo Benelli

Catalogue: 5046744692

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