Verdi: Falstaff (Salzburger Festspiele)

Overview

This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. The staging thought up by Italian director Damiano Michieletto moves the action from a fictitious London to that special care home, the Casa Verdi, a place rich in memories of great days past and impressions of a real-time present. Ambrogio Maestri seems a tailor-made Falstaff. His physique is just right for the part, as are his powerful voice, flair for drama and feeling for the Verdi style. (New York Times)

Cast

Ambrogio Maestri

Sir John Falstaff

Massimo Cavalletti

Ford

Fiorenza Cedolins

Mrs. Alice Ford

Eleonora Buratto

Nannetta

Stephanie Houtzeel

Mrs. Meg Page

Elisabeth Kulman

Mrs. Quickly

Javier Camarena

Fenton

Luca Casalin

Dottor Cajus

Gianluca Sorrentino

Bardolfo

Davide Fersini

Pistola