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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 .
Concerto in E minor (last movt, Presto) 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.
String Quartet in E flat major Op. 127 (3rd mvt – Scherzando vivace) Britten Elegy (from Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings) Liszt Les Preludes Frank Loesser: Overture and Racetrack Trio (from Guys and Dolls) Richard Strauss Moonlight Music (from the last scene of Capriccio) Verdi Falstaff (opening of Act II) Wagner
Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Along with Emilio Praga and his brother Camillo Boito , he is regarded as one of the prominent representatives of the Scapigliatura (Italian bohemian) artistic movement.
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 ...
During a career that lasted from his first appearance at Covent Garden in January 1948 to his farewell at the same house in June 1984, Evans played over 70 roles. [5] He made his operatic début as the nightwatchman in Die Meistersinger at the Royal Opera House in 1948 and performed there as Figaro in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro in 1949, a part which he sang more than 500 times during his ...
February 9 – Première of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan with Victor Maurel in the title rôle.; Summer – Gustav Mahler's first summer composing at his Komponierhäuschen ("composition hut") at Steinbach am Attersee in the Salzkammergut region of Austria.