Falstaff

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Royal Opera House, Covent GardenBow Street, Covent Garden, London, Greater London, WC2E 9DD, United Kingdom

Dates/times in London time zone

Programme

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libretto by Arrigo Boito

Performers

The Royal Opera
Daniele Gatti	Conductor
Robert Carsen	Director
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Ambrogio Maestri	Baritone	Sir John Falstaff
Dalibor Jenis	Baritone	Ford
Joel Prieto	Tenor	Fenton
Carlo Bosi	Tenor	Dr Caius
Alasdair Elliott	Tenor	Bardolfo (Bardolph)
Lukas Jakobski	Bass	Pistola (Pistol)
Ana María Martínez	Soprano	Alice Ford
Kai Rüütel-Pajula	Mezzo-soprano	Meg Page
Amanda Forsythe	Soprano	Nannetta
Marie-Nicole Lemieux	Contralto	Mistress Quickly

Reviews of Falstaff directed by Robert Carsen

*****

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, March 2023

*****

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, February 2019

****1

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, July 2018

***11

Teatro alla Scala, Milan, October 2015

*****

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, July 2015

****1

Dutch National Opera and Ballet, Amsterdam, June 2014

****1

Lincoln Center: Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, December 2013

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Robert Carsen's new Falstaff at Covent Garden

David Karlin, 20th May

In the end, the big man gets the last laugh. Come to think of it, he also gets the first laugh, but for different reasons: you sense that Verdi steadily grew to love Falstaff in the course of writing the opera, as he turns from a coarse buffoon into a maligned old man and, eventually, into the spirit of laughter itself.

****1