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2010-2011 Season
Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Libretto by Arrigo Boito
Based on The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
Sung in Italian with English surtitles.
What woman could resist the charms of an aging, corpulent, drunken seducer?
Shakespeare’s lovable rogue Falstaff confidently barrels through Elizabethan England leaving comic destruction in his wake. A quicksilver tribute to the joys of self-indulgence and self-delusion, Verdi’s final masterpiece heartily embraces all that life has to offer.
October 21 and 24, 2011 at 7:30 PM
October 22, 2011 at 8:00 PM
October 23, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- Bryn Terfel sings Falstaff's "Honor" aria
- Falstaff Synopsis
- Video summary of the opera on You Tube
- Entire Cast sings the final fugue
- Falstaff Libretto in Italian
- Wikipedia article about Falstaff
- Biography of Composer Giuseppe Verdi
- About the librettist, Arrigo Boito
- Complete Score
- About the source: Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor