
Falstaff
ComedyMusic
â 6.7 / 10(8)
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.
- Rated
- Unrated
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Released
- 1987
Details
Release year: 1987
Storyline
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.
Top credits
Directors
Cast
See all 9 credits â- JosĂ© van Dam â Sir John Falstaff
- William Stone â Ford
- Laurence Dale â Fenton
- Elzbieta Szmytka â Nannetta