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Falstaff (Italian pronunciation:) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 , by William Shakespeare .
Giuseppe Verdi. The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).. The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.
The "Operadis" discography lists more than seventy other recordings, made at live performances. They include those conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham at the Metropolitan Opera in 1944 with Leonard Warren in the title role; [4] Fritz Reiner with Warren at the Met (1948); [5] Victor de Sabata with Mariano Stabile at La Scala (1951); [6] Karajan and Gobbi at the Salzburg Festival (1957); [7] Tullio ...
Georg Solti – Verdi: Falstaff (RCA Italiana Opera Chorus and Orchestra) Rudolf Kempe – Smetana: The Bartered Bride (Bamberg Symphony) Thomas Schippers – Puccini: La Boheme (Orchestra of The Opera House-Rome and Chorus of the Opera House-Rome) Alexander Melik-Pachaev – Mussorgsky: Boris Godounov (Bolshoi Theatre Chorus and Bolshoi ...
The Life of Verdi is a 1982 Italian-language biographical television miniseries directed by Renato Castellani dramatizing the life of Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. Castellani also co-wrote the original script with Leonardo Benvenuti and Piero De Bernardi. The English version was written by Gene Luotto and narrated by Burt Lancaster.
The soprano repeats the first "Libera me", [27] calling the choir to an agitated four-part fugue [27] [1] that illustrates the shattering of the world by fire, with a "devastating climax". [27] The soprano finally mutters a two-fold "Libera me" on a single low note, ever softer, interpreted as "a prayer as much for the living as for the dead".
One of the earliest operatic versions of Shakespeare's play, Salieri's Falstaff is notable for a general compression and streamlining of the original plot, note the absence of the two young lovers, Fenton and Anne, and the addition of a scene in which Mistress Ford pretends to be German to charm Falstaff (actually two such scenes exist, one in ...
Gobbi in 1973 (photo by Allan Warren). Tito Gobbi (24 October 1913 – 5 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation.. He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's La sonnambula and quickly appeared in Italy's major opera houses.