Event listing: Falstaff | L'Opéra des Nations | Event is in the past

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L'Opéra des NationsPlace des Nations 1202 Genève Switzerland, Geneva, 1202 Genève, Switzerland

Dates/times in Zurich time zone

Programme

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libretto by Arrigo Boito

Performers

Grand Théâtre de Genève
John Fiore	Conductor
Lukas Hemleb	Director
Alexander Polzin	Set Designer
Andrea Schmidt-Futterer	Costume Designer
Alexander Koppelmann	Lighting Designer
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Grand Théâtre Opera Chorus
Alan Woolbridge	Choirmaster / chorus director
Franco Vassallo	Baritone	Sir John Falstaff	2016 Jun 18, 22, 24, 26 mat
Paolo Gavanelli	Baritone	Sir John Falstaff	2016 Jun 20, 28, 30
Konstantin Shushakov	Baritone	Ford
Maija Kovalevska	Soprano	Alice Ford
Medet Chotabaev	Tenor	Fenton
Amelia Scicolone	Soprano	Nannetta	2016 Jun 18, 26 mat, 28, 30
Mary Feminear	Soprano	Nannetta	2016 Jun 20, 22, 24
Marie-Ange Todorovitch	Soprano	Mistress Quickly
Ahlima Mhamdi	Mezzo-soprano	Meg Page
Alexander Milev	Bass	Pistola (Pistol)
Raúl Giménez	Tenor	Dr Caius
Erlend Tvinnereim	Tenor	Bardolfo (Bardolph)

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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.

Too many greys in Geneva's Falstaff

Brian Angus, 20th June

A huge revolving grey monolith centre stage dominated a grey floor, grey props and men in grey costumes, all detracting from the gaiety Verdi envisaged as the essence of Falstaff.

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