
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.

as Alice Ford

as Nannetta

as Sir John Falstaff

as Ford

as Mistress Quickly

as Fenton

as Dr. Cajus

as Bardolfo

as Pistola

as Meg Page

as Self - Conductor

as Mistress of the Inn

as The Innkeeper
