This production in the Fine Arts Building transplants Shakespeare-via-Salieri’s comical opera to a chi-chi, “White Lotus”-style beach resort.
Reginald Smith, Jr. as the immortal Falstaff. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only ...
Hera Hysesang Park as Nannetta, Ailyn Pérez as Alice, Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Robert Carsen’s ...
Reginald Smith. Jr. and Nicole Heaston in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane If you want to know what walking on air sounds like, turn your attention to Giuseppe Verdi’s last ...
As a soprano and baritone, respectively, Karen Kanakis and Jacob Lassetter don’t often get to reprise their real-life roles as husband and wife on stage. More often, if they happen to be working ...
LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.
Palm Beach Opera will present Giuseppe Verdi’s final opera, “Falstaff,” for the first time in company history this weekend. Based on Shakespeare’s iconic character, “Falstaff” brings the notorious ...
The Michigan State University College of Music Opera Theatre program produces two operas each academic year. Usually one is a small, chamber type opera and the other is a well known, large opera. This ...
Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...
Over the six decades of his career, Giuseppe Verdi (1813­-1901) composed 28 operas, many of which are at the core of today's repertoire. Verdi's final work for the stage, Falstaff made its World ...
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Maryland Lyric Opera will present Falstaff, the third production in its 2022-23 ...
Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 ...