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Falstaff
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(DVD - Code 2)
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| Out of Verdis adoration for Shakespeare three masterpieces were born: Macbeth, OteIIo and, as a musical testament, his onIy comedy FaIstaff. Shakespeares most famous and subversive comic character has indeed proved to be a fertile ground for Verdi who, then eighty-years oId, signed with FaIstaff his most modern, most ambitious, but aIso wisest and most ambiguous opera. lt was high time that French stage director Laurent PelIy, an eminent speciaIist of the buffa repertoire, tried out his talents on this whimsical music drama: a task he performs with absoIute maestria, highlighting with remarkabIe subtlety the numerous comic devices invented by Verdi and Boito but also pondering on the equivocaI moraIity of the argument. He is, of course, heIped in this endeavour by a wonderful team of singers: from baritone Roberto de Candia to mezzo soprano DanieIa BarceIlona as Mrs QuickIy, without forgetting the exceptional Simone Piazzola as Ford, Rebecca Evans as Alice, or Ruth Iniesta and Joel Prieto as Nannetta and Fenton, the young coupIe whose tender romance counterpoint Falstaffs heroicomic gest. |
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