Falstaff (Zurich) (2012)
Features a great cast: Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers including Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianita in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdis commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life.
Director: Felix Breisach
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Barbara Frittoli as |
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Massimo Cavalletti as |
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Eva Liebau as |
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Ambrogio Maestri as Falstaff |
| Sound | Daniele Gatti | Conductor |
| Directing | Sven-Eric Bechtolf | Stage Director |
| Directing | Felix Breisach | Director |
| Writing | Giuseppe Verdi | Opera |
| Writing | William Shakespeare | Original Story |