Verdi: Falstaff / Maestri, Battistoni
Label: CMAJOR Catalog: 725208 Format: DVD MAESTRI; SALSI; GANDIA; BARGNESI; TOMASONI; PINI; VASSILEVA; ORCHESTRA E CORO DEL TEATRO REGIO DI PARMA; BATTISTONIBased in part on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV, Falstaff is Verdi’s last stage work and his only comic opera. The humor in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito. Price: $35.98 |