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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0032031420298
Format: Classical, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Kultur Video
Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kultur Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Running Time: 139 minutes
Sales Rank: 82861
Studio: Kultur Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1983
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Opera in three acts
The Royal Opera Covent Garden
Music GIUSEPPE VERDI
Libretto ARRIGO BOITO
Producer: RONALD EYRE
Set Designer: HAYDEN GRIFFIN
Costume Designer: MICHAEL STENNETT
Sir John Falstaff: RENATO BRUSON
Pistol: WILLIAM WILDERMANN
Bardolph: FRANCIS EGERTON
Host of the Garter Inn: GEORGE HERSON
Doctor Caius: JOHN DOBSON
Mistress Meg Page: BRENDA BOOZER
Mistress Alice Ford: KATIA RICCIARELLI
Nannetta: BARBARA HENDRICKS
Mistress Quickly:LUCIA VALENTINI-TERRANI
Ford : LEO NUCCI
Fenton: DALMACIO GONZALEZ
The Royal Opera Chorus and the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conductor CARLO MARIA GIULINI
When Carlo Maria Giulini returned to conducting public performances of opera after an absence of fourteen years, he chose for the occasion one of the enduring comic masterpieces – Verdi’s Falstaff. The composer was almost eighty when he broke the six-year silence following the premiere of Otello, and startled the musical world by revealing his complete mastery of comic invention. It is true that much of the success for this consummate work of genius is due to a libretto of extraordinary brilliance by Arrigo Boito, who took the substance of the piece from The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, but nothing can detract from Verdi’s capacity for matching it with music of real wit and humour.
Renato Bruson, the renowned interpreter of Verdi and one of the leading lyric baritones of the day, sings the title role. Katia Ricciarelli leads the trio of merry wives with Lucia Valentini-Terrani as Mistress Quickly and Brenda Boozer as Meg Page. Leo Nucci sings the role of Ford and the young lovers are here portrayed by Dalmacio Gonzalez and Barbara Hendricks. Stunning designs by Hayden Griffen and Michael Stennett provide the perfect setting for this witty interpretation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
"The operatic event of the year" THE SUNDAY TIMES
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
Moderation in the pursuit of opera is by no means a vice, and this traditional and highly refined 1982 Covent Garden FALSTAFF surely is preferable to the 1999 performance from the same house. The latter (on Opus Arte DVD) is the well-cast but hyperkinetic and comedically overexplicit Terfel/Vick/Haitink production, notorious for such touches as Falstaff's waterbed, his carrot-shaped suggestion of "excitement" in one scene, and for its eye-searingly bright Day-Glo colors. Still, while admiring much ... Read More
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Why it took this superb set so long to be released in DVD format is one of those inexplicable things that seem so typical of the music industry ... Originally released more than 20 years ago, it marked Giulini's celebrated return to live opera after more a decade's absence, encompassing performances in Los Angeles (where at the time he was chief conductor of the LAPO) and London with the same cast save for the smaller parts. DG issued on LP a composite of the LA performances, the London one circulated ... Read More
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A great production at the Royal Opera House. The characters are cast beautifully, the acting is superb, and the singing utter delight.
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