The plot, mostly based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, is an all-too-familiar piece of no-fool-like-an-old-fool fluff. And in the concert version that conductor Riccardo Muti has brought ...
OperaDelaware’s 2016 Festival continued Sunday afternoon with a rollicking production of “Falstaff,” Giuseppe Verdi’s final work. At the other end of the operagoer’s spectrum from “Amleto” (the ...
Shakespeare has been a rich source of inspiration for opera composers and Falstaff is one of his most enduring comic creations. Verdi’s “Falstaff” is the most popular depiction of the ...