Event listing: Falstaff | Nationaltheater | Event is in the past

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NationaltheaterMax-Joseph-Platz 2, Munich, Bavaria, 80539, Germany

Dates/times in Berlin time zone

Programme

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libretto by Arrigo Boito

Performers

Bavarian State Opera
Asher Fisch	Conductor
Eike Gramss	Director
Gottfried Pilz	Costume Designer, Set Designer
Bayerischer Staatsopernchor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Ambrogio Maestri	Baritone	Sir John Falstaff
Véronique Gens	Soprano	Alice Ford
Ekaterina Siurina	Soprano	Nannetta
Gaëlle Arquez	Mezzo-soprano	Meg Page
Susanne Resmark	Mezzo-soprano	Mistress Quickly
George Petean	Baritone	Ford
Kevin Conners	Tenor	Bardolfo (Bardolph)
Ulrich Reß	Tenor	Dr Caius
Antonio Poli	Tenor	Fenton
Goran Jurić	Bass	Pistola (Pistol)

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Falstaff: the enduring appeal of Shakespeare’s fat knight

Mark Pullinger, 13th April

Few operatic characters straddle the operatic stage larger than Sir John Falstaff. Read our in depth 'opera portrait' on Verdi's Falstaff as well as some of his other guises.

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A tartan Falstaff in Munich

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 12th February

The Merry Wives of Windsor – relocated to Scotland – sing beautifully, as does their wooer, Falstaff. But it's not clear why they're in Scotland in the first place, or how the rest of the staging fits the opera.

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