Salzburg Festival: Falstaff sent to Casa Verdi by Damiano Michieletto

By Benedetta Saglietti, 01 August 2013

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Reviewed at Haus für Mozart, Salzburg on 31 July 2013

Verdi, Falstaff

Zubin Mehta, Conductor

Damiano Michieletto, Director

Vienna Philharmonic

Philharmonia Chor Wien

Ambrogio Maestri, Sir John Falstaff

Javier Camarena, Fenton

Fiorenza Cedolins, Alice Ford

Massimo Cavalletti, Ford

Eleonora Buratto, Nannetta

Elisabeth Kulman, Mistress Quickly

Stephanie Houtzeel, Meg Page

Luca Casalin, Dr Caius

Roberto Sorrentino, Bardolfo (Bardolph)

Davide Fersini, Pistola (Pistol)

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***11

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***11

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Damiano Michieletto’s production of Janáček’s opera breaks a key tenet of high-concept opera: where it should reveal, it obfuscates.

***11

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Benedetta Saglietti

Benedetta Saglietti hold a degree in music history. She is the author of Beethoven, ritratti e immagini: uno studio sull’iconografia (Beethoven, Portraits and Images: An Iconographical Study) and a contributor of program notes for musical institutions. Her book reviews appeared in scholarly journals such as Studi Filosofici, Síneris, Revista de Musicología, Ad Parnassum. Selected articles and essays are here.