Of paunches and princes
Revivals of Falstaff in Milan and Don Carlo in Naples have Larry Wolff thinking across the six decades of Verdi‘s career
Ambrogio Maestri
22 pieces since 2012 — in 10 roles, at 8 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
22
pieces
10
roles
8
companies
15
years
By role
7 pieces as Falstaff — stats above show all coverage for Ambrogio Maestri.
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Kitchen confidential
Since 1985, from the Chicago Symphony at Carnegie Hall to the Welsh National Opera visiting BAM and from Chicago Lyric to New York City Opera to the Met, I’ve never encountered a bad Falstaff—or one that didn’t astound and delight me.
Out here in the dark
This is the tenth season of the Met’s HD broadcasts, not that I would know it.
He is big
Falstaff, Verdi’s final opera, is exuberantly inventive, bubbling and roiling with ideas the 79-year-old composer was too impatient to develop.
Autumn leaves
It may have taken most of Verdi’s canon to do it, but the “Tutto Verdi” collection finally manages to do justice to Verdi in his last two operas.
Questions and antlers
Verdi’s only successful comic opera, Falstaff, is notably hard to produce.
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I’ll take the fall
The days are getting shorter, but you can keep the prattle going this fall’s Talk of the Town! You will, you can, you must join in the discussion about: Great mezzo soprano performances (October),
Gained in translation (November), Teleport me back to… (December).
