This 2013 Salzburg Festival performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdis late masterwork and crowning achievement, features conductor Zubin Mehta and the Vienna Philharmonic. The staging thought up by Italian director Damiano Michieletto moves the action from a fictitious London to that special care home, the Casa Verdi, a place rich in memories of great days past and impressions of a real-time present. Ambrogio Maestri seems a tailor-made Falstaff. His physique is just right for the part, as are his powerful voice, flair for drama and feeling for the Verdi style. (New York Times)
as Sir John Falstaff
as Ford
as Mrs. Alice Ford
as Nannetta
as Mrs. Meg Page
as Mrs. Quickly
as Fenton
as Dottor Cajus
as Bardolfo
as Pistola
as Self - Conductor
