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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.
In 1935 he presented Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, performed for the first time at the Salzburg Festival. His choice of Wagner's Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1936 was seen as an act of opposition to the Bayreuth Festival, insisting that this opera belongs to the cultural heritage of the world and not to Nazi Germany.
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 ...
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.
It is the only opera adaptation to include the disguising of Falstaff as a woman. Falstaff, one-act, music by Adolphe Adam, [33] libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe de Leuven (1856) [30] Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, was Verdi's last opera (1893). Some of the changes include Anne (known as ...
Verdi's only comedy apart from his last opera, Falstaff. [74] 1842 Der Wildschütz (Albert Lortzing). Lortzing's "comic masterpiece", intended to show a German work could rival Italian opera buffa and French opéra comique. [77] 1842 Nabucco (Verdi). Verdi described this opera as the genuine beginning of his artistic career. [78]
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
He sang in opera houses in Paris and London, Milan, Moscow, New York, St Petersburg and many other venues. He was particularly associated with the operas of Verdi and created leading characters in the premieres of the composer's final operas, as Iago in Otello (1887) and in the title role of Falstaff (1893).