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Opera Explained: VERDI - Falstaff (Smillie) |
Opera Explained
An Introduction to… VERDI Falstaff
Written by Thomson Smillie
Narrated by David Timson
1 CD
12-page booklet
8.558158
ISBN: 1-84379-098-X
Verdi’s Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera’s happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career – distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces – with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the eighty-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime. Falstaff is the last great Italian comic opera and a worthy end to the tradition.
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An Introduction to... VERDI Falstaff
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Falstaff's qualities
00:03:07
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Verdi and Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Falstaff and Verdi's librettist
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Opening: The Garter Inn
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Falstaff's plan begins
00:07:09
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Act I, Scene 2: The Ford's garden
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Enter Ford, Bardolph, Pistol, Dr Caius and Fenton
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Act II, Scene 1: Mistress Quickly visits Falstaff
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Enter Signor Fontana
00:08:04
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Act II, Scene 2: Inside the Ford's house
00:08:45
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Act III, Scene 1: Falstaff back at the Garter Inn, soaked
00:06:39
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Act III, Scene 2: Windsor Great Park
00:04:48
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Enter the townspeople, disguised
00:05:16
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Final pages of the opera
00:04:02
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Total Playing Time: 01:18:46 |
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