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Texas Tech University Music Theory (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
I just returned from vacationing for a week in Santa Fe. We saw three operas while we were there: Verdi's Falstaff , Saariaho's Adriana Mater , and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro . All three productions were really, really great. The experience differs from (I'll say) conventional opera performances in that the performances take place in an amphitheater in the mountains just north of Santa Fe. If you...
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On An Overgrown Path (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
£14.99 ($30) for the new recording of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes conducted by the delight of the classical music industry is a fantastic bargain. But £14.99 ($30) for the same musician's acclaimed accounts of Peter Grimes and Verdi's Falstaff on 5 CDs ? As the credit crunches that really is a sign of the Grimes . More a cava moment than a champagne moment ? Any copyrighted material on these pages...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008
(photo via) Santa Fe Opera's grand opening weekend of Season 2008 kicked off yesterday with a black tie Opera Ball, clearing the way for tonight's premiere of Verdi's Falstaff (Laurent Naouri singing the lead). The season will close almost two...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 19/06/2008
Written by Giuseppe Verdi at the age of 80, Falstaff was one of his most successful comedies. Based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, the popular opera is playing in Paris.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/05/2008
No matter how many times one hears this marvellous score, one cannot fail to be amazed by the ingenuity, sparkle, wit and invention that Verdi lavished on the music of his last opera. Under the conductor Peter Robinson, the performance of this new Scottish Opera production sparkled from start to finish, and the orchestra obviously enjoyed playing such gorgeous music. Musically, too, onstage there...
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Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 20/05/2008
Giuseppe Verdi's final opera, "Falstaff," has the metabolism of a hummingbird. *** But Bach and Beethoven tell us exactly what they want to tell us, while Mozart lets us find what we want in him, on our own levels of...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
With a dive from the high springboard, the conductor Peter Robinson launched Verdi's final opera into brisk motion. He kept the momentum to the end. The orchestra loved it, the singers kept up, most of the time, even in the complex ensembles; the cross-rhythmed nonet that ends Act I scrambled and elbowed, like people pushing and shoving through a doorway.
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 15/05/2008
Review: Though updating an opera to the year when it was composed is one of the recurring tricks of modern stagecraft, it should nevertheless have been surprising to find Scottish Opera setting its latest production of Verdi’s Falstaff in 1893.
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Conrad Wilson talks to Egyptian-born baritone Peter Sidhom about his lead role in Scottish Opera’s new production of the Verdi masterpiece.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 31/03/2008
Three Zeffirelli productions are being performed this season, including Puccini's "La Boheme." Its season opening Saturday was a celebration of the Italian director who made his Met debut in 1964 with a production of Verdi's "Falstaff."...
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PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 28/03/2008
New York City Opera continues its Spring 2008 season with the Giuseppe Verdi favorite Falstaff.
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Opera Today (Free subscription) | 24/03/2008
(Photo: Opera Illinois) BY GEORGE LOOMIS [NY Sun, 21 March 2008] The Metropolitan Opera made a questionable judgment call a few years ago when it abandoned plans for a new production of Verdi's "Falstaff" and decided instead to refurbish its once-classic Franco Zeffirelli production from 1964. Despite efforts on their behalf, however, the sets looked every bit their age when they returned in 2002...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 21/03/2008
Jan Opalach conveyed both the buffoonish and fleetingly pensive aspects of Verdi’s Falstaff in Leon Major’s appealing staging at the New York State Theater on Wednesday.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
The final image of Peter Stein's production of Verdi's Falstaff says it all. Dunked in a ditch, duped by the merry wives and denounced as a fool, poor, greedy, self-loving, self-loathing Sir John magically ascends through the night air of Windsor Park and floats above his tormentors, grinning from ear to ear. The Welsh bass-baritone is back, and if Bryn Terfel's charisma has dimmed since withdrawing...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Even when it was new, 20 years ago, Peter Stein's staging of Verdi's last opera in the confined spaces of Cardiff's New Theatre was an oasis of clarity and good sense amid a sea of directorial postmodernism. Revived on Monday on the wider WMC stage, it had a faintly retro air, with the Globe-like balconies and arcades of Lucio Fanti's sets requiring lengthy scene-changes and two substantial intervals....
