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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.
While in New Orleans Cellini conducted performances of many operas, including Verdi's Otello (with Ramón Vinay and Nelli), Puccini's Tosca (with Inge Borkh and Robert Weede), Lakmé by Delibes, Barber's Amelia al ballo (with Schuh), Elektra by R. Strauss, L'amore dei tre re, Verdi's Falstaff (with Warren), Massenet's Werther, Rossini's La ...
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 ...
Portrait by Giovanni Boldini, 1886. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (/ ˈ v ɛər d i /, Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈverdi]; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas.
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.
Luigi Alva. Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva (born 10 April 1927 in Paíta, Peru) is a Peruvian operatic tenor.A Mozart and Rossini specialist, Alva achieved fame with roles such as Don Ottavio (in Don Giovanni), Count Almaviva (in The Barber of Seville) and Fenton (in Verdi's Falstaff).
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.