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Falstaff

Title
Falstaff [videorecording] / Giuseppe Verdi ; Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala ; Riccardo Muti, Conductor ; directed for stage by Ruggero Cappuccio.
Publication
Canada : EuroArts Music, 2002.

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Description
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
The comic misadventures of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff, adapted from his Merry wives of Windsor and Henry IV by Verdi and Boito.
Subject
Genre/Form
Operas.
Note
  • Booklet with plot summary and biographical information in English, French, and German (12 p. : ill ; 18 cm.) inserted in container.
  • After a historical staging (1913) by Teatro Verdi, Busseto.
Credits (note)
  • Directed for stage by Ruggero Cappuccio ; directed for television by Pierre Cavasillas ; costume designer, Carlo Poggioli ; art direction, Lucia Goj.
Performer (note)
  • Ambrogio Maestri (Sir John Falstaff), Roberto Frontali (Ford), Juan Diego Flórez (Fenton), Barbara Frittoli (Alice Ford), Inva Mula (Nannetta), Bernadette Manca di Nissa (Mistress Quickly).
Event (note)
  • Recorded live at the Teatro Verdi, Busseto, 20 April 2001.
Audience (note)
  • MPAA rating: Not rated.
System Details (note)
  • DVD; Dolby digital surround sound.
Language (note)
  • Sung in Italian.
OCLC
ocm53915982
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries