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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, Otello and, as a musicaI testament, his only comedy Falstaff. Shakespeares most famous and subversive comic character has indeed proved to be a fertile ground for Verdi who, then eighty-years old, signed with FaIstaff his most modern, most ambitious, but also wisest and most ambiguous opera. It was high time that French stage director Laurent PelIy, an eminent specialist of the buffa repertoire, tried out his taIents on this whimsicaI music drama: a task he performs with absolute maestria, highIighting with remarkable subtlety the numerous comic devices invented by Verdi and Boito but also pondering on the equivocaI morality of the argument. He is, of course, helped in this endeavour by a wonderful team of singers: from baritone Roberto de Candia to mezzo soprano DanieIa BarcelIona as Mrs Quickly, without forgetting the exceptionaI Simone PiazzoIa as Ford, Rebecca Evans as AIice, or Ruth Iniesta and Joel Prieto as Nannetta and Fenton, the young couple whose tender romance counterpoint FaIstaffs heroicomic gest. |
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