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Title:
Falstaff [videorecording] / Giuseppe Verdi ; co-production of The Metropolitan Opera; Royal Opera House, Covert Garden; Teatro alla Scala, Milan; The Canadian Opera Company, Toronto; and De Nederlandse Opera, Amsterdam.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Publisher:
Decca,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 2 hr., 7 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject:
Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Falstaff.--Falstaff.
Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character)--Drama.
Operas.
Feature films.
Televised operas.
Other Authors:
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Falstaff.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merry wives of Windsor.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. King Henry IV.
Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918, librettist.
Meade, Angela, performer.
Oropesa, Lisette, performer.
Blythe, Stephanie, performer.
Vassallo, Franco, performer.
Maestri, Ambrogio, 1970- performer.
Levine, James, 1943- conductor.
Carsen, Robert, producer.
Halvorson, Gary, director.
Gelb, Peter, producer.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.), performer.
Notes:
Commedia lirica in 3 acts. Originally broadcast in the series The Met: Live in HD. Videodisc release of the 2013 live broadcast. Libretto by Arrigo Boito ; based on the plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV by William Shakespeare. Program notes by Ellen Keel and synopsis by Robert Carsen in English with French and German translations (26 pages : ports.) inserted in container. Bonus features: backstage at the Met with host Ren©♭e Fleming. Interview Angela Meade and Stephanie Blythe ; Peter Gelb, James Levine and Robert Carsen discuss Falstaff ; interview with Met Props Master James Blumenfeld ; interview with Ambrogio Maestri and Valeria Villani ; interview with Lisette Oropesa and Jennifer Johnson Cano. Angela Meade (Alice Ford) ; Lisette Oropesa (Nannetta) ; Stephanie Blythe (Mistress Quickly) ; Franco Vassallo (Ford) ; Ambrogio Maestri (Sir John Falstaff) ; Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus ; James Levine, conductor. Recorded live 14 December 2013 Metropolitan Opera, New York, New York.
Summary:
The comic misadventures of a down-on-his-luck knight looking to earn some money by romancing rich men's wives, a jealous husband, and his wife.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)929716014
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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