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Available on DVD

Subtitles:I, E, G, F, Sp, Kor, Chin
Booklet:E, G, F
No. of Discs:1
Run time:126 minutes
Disc Format:DVD9
Picture: NTSC, 16:9
Audio: PCM Stereo, PCM 5.1
Region Code:0 (worldwide)
Price Code:CME21
Item No.:711108
UPC No.:814337011116
Release Date:June 2012

Opera Print available on DVD

Falstaff

Falstaff
No.: 711108
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Daniele Gatti
Orchestra: Orchester der Oper Zürich, Chor der Oper Zürich
Artists: Daniele Gatti, Ambrogio Maestri, Barbara Frittoli, Massimo Cavalletti, Eva Liebau
Year: 2012-06
Run time: 02:06:00

“Everything in this world is a joke,” says Falstaff, and these words are truly given weight by Ambrogio Maestri, one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings to his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers, including Barbara Frittoli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianità in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdi’s commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called “musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life”.