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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 .
Verdi Falstaff (final fugue from Act 3, All the world's a prank) 5 Aug 2000 Leo Schofield: Amanda McBroom: Ship in a Bottle Bruckner Symphony No 7, Adagio (recapitulation only) Debussy Dialogue du vent et de la mer (finale from La mer) Mozart Come scoglio (from Cosí fan tutte Act 1, Scene 3) Arthur Sullivan
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.
Ambrogio Maestri (born 1970) is an Italian operatic baritone.He is especially known for his portrayal of the title character in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff. [1] [2] He studied piano and singing in his home town, Pavia.
He joined the staff of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where he debuted conducting Verdi's Don Carlos, on April 9, 1952, with Jussi Björling, Eleanor Steber and Regina Resnik in the cast. The following year, he led Aida (with Herva Nelli and Jean Madeira ) and La forza del destino (with Zinka Milanov and Mario del Monaco ).
The recent by Xover (talk · contribs) from Falstaff (opera) to Falstaff (Verdi) seems ill-advised to me. 1) That name has been in use for this article for a very long time, because 2) this is the best known opera of that name; 3) consequently, there are hundreds links to this name, including from other language Wikipedias; 4) the page mover didn't bother to adjust at least two significant ...
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 ...
The final line in te speravi is first rendered by a single soprano voice from the choir, representing the "[voice of] mankind", as Verdi requested. The line is repeated by the choir, followed by a reticent postlude, similar to the conclusion of the Requiem. [4] A performance takes about 15 minutes. Verdi himself suggested 12 minutes.