Falstaff - Opera - Season 17/18 Programming

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Falstaff

Opéra Bastille - from 26 October to 16 November 2017

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Falstaff

Opera Giuseppe Verdi

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Opéra Bastille - from 26 October to 16 November 2017

2h40 with 1 interval

Language : Italian

Surtitle : French / English

Opening night : 26 October 2018

About

In few words:

There is no work to compare with Falstaff. In his last opera, Giuseppe Verdi, then aged eighty-four, delivered, from behind the mask of his buffoon-like rascal of a hero, the testimony of a life approaching its end and whose moral, like that of the opera, would be: life is but a joke. This indefinable comedy, tinged with pessimism, defies all the conventions of 19th century Italian opera and testifies to Verdi’s passion for the theatre. Dominique Pitoiset’s witty, humorous production brings these eccentric characters to life and their sparkling interplay maintains a perfect balance between fantasy and reality, the very essence of the work.

Falstaff

Opera in three acts

After William Shakespeare

Music :

Giuseppe Verdi

Libretto :

Arrigo Boito

Conductor :

Fabio Luisi

Director :

Dominique Pitoiset

Set design :

Alexandre Beliaev

Costume design :

Elena Rivkina

Lighting design :

Philippe Albaric, adaptées par Christophe Pitoiset

Chorus master :

José Luis Basso
Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
Sir John Falstaff :

Bryn Terfel

Ford :

Franco Vassallo

Fenton :

Francesco Demuro

Dottore Cajus :

Graham Clark

Bardolfo :

Rodolphe Briand

Pistola :

Thomas Dear

Mrs Alice Ford :

Aleksandra Kurzak

Nannetta :

Julie Fuchs

Mrs Quickly :

Varduhi Abrahamyan

Daniela Barcellona

29 oct.

Nadine Weissmann

1, 4, 7, 10 nov.

Mrs Meg Page :

Julie Pasturaud