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falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi

Opéra Bastille - from 26 October to 16 November 2017

2h40 with 1 interval

Opening night : 26 October 2018

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    Falstaff

    Opera in three acts

    Music
    Giuseppe Verdi
    Libretto
    Arrigo Boito

    After William Shakespeare
    In Italian

    Conductor
    Fabio Luisi
    Director
    Dominique Pitoiset
    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
    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
    French and English surtitles

    Podcast

    about

    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.

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