Event listing: Falstaff | Wiener Staatsoper | Event is in the past

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Wiener StaatsoperOpernring 2 / Herbert-von-Karajan-Platz, Vienna, 1010, Austria

Dates/times in Vienna time zone

Programme

Verdi, Giuseppe (1813-1901)

Libretto by Arrigo Boito

Performers

Vienna State Opera
James Conlon	Conductor
Sir David McVicar	Director
Charles Edwards	Set Designer
Gabrielle Dalton	Costume Designer
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
Carlos Álvarez	Baritone	Sir John Falstaff
Olga Bezsmertna	Soprano	Alice Ford
Sir Simon Keenlyside	Baritone	Ford
Jinxu Xiahou	Tenor	Fenton
Hila Fahima	Soprano	Nannetta
Monika Bohinec	Mezzo-soprano	Mistress Quickly
Margaret Plummer	Mezzo-soprano	Meg Page
Herwig Pecoraro	Tenor	Bardolfo (Bardolph)
Michael Laurenz	Tenor	Dr Caius
Ryan Speedo Green	Bass	Pistola (Pistol)

Reviews of Falstaff directed by Sir David McVicar

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Edinburgh Festival Theatre, August 2021

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Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, December 2016

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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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Grantscherben in Pluderhosen: Falstaff an der Wiener Staatsoper

Snapdragon, 25th January

Carlos Álvarez und Simon Keenlyside sind ein Duo Infernale: wer Falstaff mag, wird nicht so schnell einen besseren erleben.

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