Michael Volle

32 pieces since 2010 — in 17 roles, at 8 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.

32 pieces
17 roles
8 companies
17 years

1 piece as Falstaff — stats above show all coverage for Michael Volle.

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Radically giddy

Verdi’s Falstaff is a brilliantly written opera: funny, with a complex ability to operate across minutely shifting registers of farce and lyricism. It needs, ideally, a production and cast capable of executing both comedy and drama, irony and sincerity—often concurrently. In its current Met revival, happily, Falstaff has everything it needs.

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