Falstaff
Blu-ray
Based, in part, on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi’s last work for the stage – and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito. In this legendary performance from the Salzburg Festival 1982, Herbert von Karajan is not only leading a stunning cast of singers featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker, he too directed the opera, in the amazing set design of Günther Schneider-Siemssen.
- Genre: Opera
- Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
- Conductor: Herbert von Karajan
- Orchestra: Wiener Philharmoniker
- Artists: Giuseppe Taddei, Rolando Panerai, Francisco Araiza, Christa Ludwig, Raina Kabaivanska, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoperchor
- Director: Staged by Herbert von Karajan
- Production Year: 2023-01
Blu-ray
- Catalog No.: 761504
- Running Time: 135 mins
- Subtitles: It, D, E, F, Ko
- Booklet Notes: E, D, F
- Discs: 1
- Audio: PCM Stereo, Dolby 5.1
- Video: 4:3, HD
- Format: BD 50
- UPC Code: 814337016876
- Price Code: CME 25
- Region Code: 0 (worldwide)