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	Falstaff (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Falstaff is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor.
		Falstaff's attempts to seduce the lady are cut short as Mistress Quickly reports the arrival of Mistress Page, and the knight is compelled to conceal himself behind a screen.
		Falstaff's love scene with Mistress Ford is interrupted by the announcement that witches are approaching, and the men disguised as elves and fairies thrash Falstaff soundly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falstaff_(opera) (819 words)

	Falstaff (opera)
		Falstaff is surrounded by his friends Bardolph, Pistol and the innkeeper, when Dr. Caius arrives and insults him, but the excited doctor is soon ejected.
		Falstaff agrees with pleasure, and while he is absent, attiring himself in splendid array, Ford is consumed with jealousy.
		Falstaff's love scene with Mistress Ford is interrupted by the announcement that the Wild Huntsman is approaching, and the men disguised as elves and fairies thrash Falstaff soundly.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/falstaff__opera_ (640 words)

	Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi
		With roots in the commedia dell'arte, Falstaff is a braggart, a lecher, a con man, and a manipulative liar.
		Verdi's comic opera, Falstaff, is based directly on the Shakespeare character, using The Merry Wives of Windsor as its principal source.
		Falstaff was first performed at La Scala in February, 1893--the year that Verdi was to turn 80--and the opera was a popular and critical success, a triumph for the aging maestro.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/Falstaff.htm (748 words)

	Encyclopedia: Falstaff (opera)
		Macbeth is an 1847 opera by Giuseppe Verdi with a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on Shakespeares play of the same name.
		Aida is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based on a story by Auguste Mariette.
		Operas Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Falstaff-(opera) (1120 words)

	Falstaff (opera) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Falstaff is surrounded by his friends Bardolph, Pistol and the innkeeper, when Dr. Caius arrives and accuses him of robbery, but the excited doctor is soon ejected.
		After Falstaff, dubious at first, has promised to go to Herne's Oak, the place of meeting, he enters the house with Dame Quickly, and the men concoct a plan for his punishment.
		Falstaff, pleased to find himself not the only dupe, proclaims that the whole world is a joke (Tutto nel mondo è burla).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fa/Falstaff_(opera).htm (752 words)

	Easy Reader Story
		After attending the bizarre staging of Richard Strauss’ comic opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion last week, it was a relief to see the more conventional performance of Falstaff, Giuseppe Verdi’s last opera, equally comical but shorter, written when the composer was 80 years old.
		Appearing also in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Falstaff is the very recognizable fat, amoral, dishonest yet endearing character that ultimately gets what he deserves because of his unprincipled behavior, and it’s hard to imagine a better performer for the role than Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel.
		Falstaff has to hide in a laundry basket which the servants ultimately throw out the window and into the Thames River.
	easyreader.hermosawave.net /news2002/storypage.asp?StoryID=20026473&IssuePath=news2005/0609 (521 words)

	Verdi, ‘Falstaff,’ Royal Opera, Covent Garden, 15th February 2003 (ME) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It could, of course, simply be that Bryn Terfel’s Falstaff found his mountainous costume difficult to deal with, but one could hardly escape the impression that we were being shown a central figure chiefly remarkable for being an outcast, surrounded by the brash and the colourful.
		This Falstaff is neither an heroic nor a cosy figure and at the end we are left in no doubt that he has been thoroughly fooled — when he launches the final fugue ‘Tutto nel mondo è burla’, he does so grimly rather than with any relish.
		The final scene is a superb coup de theâtre with the branches of the oak tree depicted by dangling spirits and the whole stage picture dominated by tones of purple, blue and white.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/Feb03/Falstraff_verdi.htm (719 words)

	Falstaff @ Barbican Hall
		The Tudor setting of this opera has rarely been so vividly brought to mind, nor is the influence of Rossini on the almost eighty-year-old Verdi usually as brilliant as it was here.
		Falstaff is Verdi's final opera but only his second comedy (the first, Un Giorno di Regno, was a flop which nearly terminated the composer's output).
		The “Indian summer” he is enjoying with the LSO mirrors that of Verdi in his final bursts of inspiration (Otello and Falstaff), and this rare foray into the world of opera provided the orchestra with an opportunity to get its teeth into this highly dramatic music.
	www.musicomh.com /opera/falstaff.htm (623 words)

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		Falstaff was in many ways Verdi’s crowning achievement — it took him to the end of a successful opera composition career while sending him to a completely new genre and composing experience.
		Falstaff was an archetype, a lovable fat scoundrel and rogue who amusingly indulges in mischief.
		Falstaff is not so much the victim of deceit and trickery as the cause of fun, frolic and laughter.
	www.realsolutionsmag.com /idealbb/view.asp?topicID=3823 (1219 words)

	Opera Review: `Falstaff'
		Verdi's last opera, "Falstaff" comes largely from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor." It retells the famous story of the elderly Sir John Falstaff's attempt to seduce Alice Ford and Meg Page, two respectable married women of Windsor, and the clever way in which they turn the tables on him when they discover his game.
		In this opera of quicksilver character, comedy, romance, pathos and joy are intermingled, constantly shifting back and forth, weaving a texture that is complex and simple at the same time.
		Delavan is an endearing Falstaff, still young at heart, always ready with a winning smile or a twinkle in his eye, even at his most outrageous moments.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200007/00705p02.html (886 words)

	JS Online: Florentine's 'Falstaff' is fun, full of life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Delavan's Falstaff takes the former as a matter of course and is deliciously oblivious to the latter.
		Falstaff gets by in life - barely - because he is bigger than life and gives everyone around him initial pause.
		"Falstaff" is an ensemble opera, with the title role and that of Alice Ford as first and second among equals.
	www.jsonline.com /enter/performingarts/feb01/verdi24022401.asp (526 words)

	Falstaff Minuetto; Giuseppe Verdi; guitar.
		It was only his second comic opera (the first one was early and was not a success), out of a total of 26 operas.
		Falstaff is universally considered a masterpiece - one of the three or four greatest comic operas.
		In the opera, none of the sections of the minuetto are repeated.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/fals.htm (939 words)

	Falstaff (ópera) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Falstaff es una ópera en tres actos de Giuseppe Verdi, adaptado por Arrigo Boito del juego de Shakespeare las felices esposas de Windsor.
		Falstaff da una letra a su serva nts y otro a la página, para la entrega a la amante Ford y a la página de la amante, y después los despide airadamente.
		Falstaff recibe otra vez una invitación a través de dama Quickly, que es oyó por casualidad por los hombres.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/fa/Falstaff%20%28%F3pera%29.htm (673 words)

	Opera broadcast to include JPR interview
		Falstaff is a fat, lecherous, gluttonous braggart generally considered one of the greatest characters in English literature.
		"Falstaff" is based loosely on "The Merry Wives of Windsor." Most of the plays credited to William Shakespeare have been made into operas, some of them several times, but "Falstaff," which Verdi wrote in 1893, is widely considered one of the best.
		Verdi is one of the most important figures in Italian opera, and "Falstaff" (together with his "Otello") is often considered the crowning achievement of his mature years.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/2002/march/032602n1.htm (545 words)

	Falstaff, Royal Opera House \| London Theatre Guide
		After his many tragic operas, Verdi went out laughing with his final masterpiece for the stage, the witty and energetic Falstaff, adapted by Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor.
		Falstaff is sung in Italian with English surtitles.
		Mozart's comic opera is staged to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's birth.
	www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk /shows/display?contentId=71481 (672 words)

	Verdi, Giuseppe - Italian operatic composer
		The opera created a sensation; its subject matter dealt with the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, and the Italian public regarded it as a symbol of the struggle against Austrian rule in northern Italy.
		Middle Period Operas written in the middle of Verdi's career, including Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball, 1859), La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny, 1862), and Don Carlo (1867), exhibit a greater mastery of musical characterization and a greater emphasis on the role of the orchestra than his earlier works.
		This was followed by Verdi's last opera, Falstaff (1893), also adapted by Boito from Shakespeare, and generally considered one of the greatest of all comic operas.
	www.greatitalians.com /verdi.htm (523 words)

	Falstaff (Opera Guide) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The second of those music dramas, Falstaff, was to be Verdi's second comedy, and his last opera.
		Falstaff is a towering monument to artistic collaboration.
		Falstaff is one of the west's great example's of existentialism expressed in artistic form.
	www.civilbook.com /index/book/071453921X.html (335 words)

	'Falstaff' takes the stage - The Clarion-Ledger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Falstaff toasts the Mississippi Opera's Diamond Jubilee Season with a festive spirit, one of Verdi's greatest operas and one of literature's most famous comic characters — Sir John Falstaff.
		Falstaff is the very embodiment of a man who lives large.
		Verdi's last and arguably his finest opera, Falstaff was a popular and critical success from its start in 1893 — the crowning glory of his career, at age 80.
	www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041119/FEAT0101/411190309/1010/FEAT01 (797 words)

	Verdi's Opera "Falstaff" to be Performed at Cahn Auditorium Feb. 26 to 29
		“Falstaff” tells the tale of the larcenous Sir John Falstaff, who connives to rob two gentlemen of their purses and their wives.
		It will be directed by Northwestern’s Director of Opera Noel Koran, associate professor of opera, and conducted by Frederick Ockwell, associate professor of opera, conducting and ensembles.
		Single tickets for “Falstaff” are $22 for the general public; $18 for senior citizens and Northwestern faculty and staff; and $5.50 for full-time students.
	www.northwestern.edu /univ-relations/media_relations/releases/2004_02/falstaff_text.html (254 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts reviews \| Falstaff, Royal Opera House, London
		Falstaff failed to make to make the cut in Boyden's list of 100 essential operas.
		This revival of Falstaff marks Antonio Pappano's first foray into Italian opera since he took over as Covent Garden's music director at the start of the season.
		Written when Verdi was in his late 70s, Falstaff is essentially a valedictory work that affirms life on the brink of mortality.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/reviews/story/0,11712,894366,00.html (429 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Verdi - Falstaff / Lafont, Martinpelto, Michaels-Moore, Mingardo, R. Evans, Palombi, E. James, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		This is a connoisseur's opera, but one all can enjoy, full of inventive orchestration, hilarious comedy, and, at its close, heart-warming reconciliation.
		Lafont's Falstaff might be interesting on stage, but on disc his generalized interpretation and ordinary voice don't compel.
		It was perhaps not wise of him to start the operas with the very last, the greatest and most difficult of all.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000059ZIB?v=glance (1868 words)

	Falstaff (opera) : Falstaff the opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		It was Verdi's last opera, written at an advanced age, and isn'ted for its concluding fugue, "Tutto nel mondo è burla" ("All the world's a joke").
		All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
		A dead jackal body and became the dead jackal, was because of the beach, blew by vultures, was ?stripped to the bone?, was dust, and blew in.
	www.termsdefined.net /fa/falstaff-the-opera.html (775 words)

	Santa Fe Opera launches 45th season
		Andrew Shore plays Falstaff in the Verdi opera of the same name, opening June 30 at the Santa Fe Opera.
		In 1976, Gaddes was invited to establish an opera company in St. Louis and remained there until 1985 when he became chief executive of St. Louis’s Grand Center.
		A continuing audience-friendly feature is individual access to "opera titles," translations that appear at every seat to help make works sung in Italian, German or French accessible.
	www.durangoherald.com /archives/arts555.htm (548 words)

	Présentations de Macbeth, la Traviata et Falstaff - forum opéra
		On a beaucoup parlé au sujet de Falstaff de la revanche prise par Verdi sur un giorno di regno, unique opéra bouffe antérieur du maître, et fiasco retentissant.
		Par la plume de Boito, Sir John Falstaff devient donc un être quasi-vivant, ivrogne, poltron, voleur, menteur, paillard, mais qui capte l'affection du spectateur par la vivacité de son esprit, son inépuisable imagination, sa fantastique vitalité, d'autant plus qu'il n'y a pas chez lui la moindre once de méchanceté.
		C'est aussi grâce à Falstaff que tous les personnages s'évadent des contraintes de la vie courante, comme il le leur explique : " c'est moi qui vous rend rusés, ma subtilité crée la subtilité des autres ".
	www.forumopera.com /opera%20no6/verdi-presmtf.html (2589 words)

	Falstaff (Royal Opera House) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Bryn Terfel as Sir John Falstaff and Barbara Frittoli as Alice Ford lead a star cast with the orchestra and chorus of the Royal Opera House under the direction of Bernard Haitink, in a spectacular new production by Graham Vick with vibrant medieval designs by Paul Brown.
		But Terfel's Falstaff is tremendous in spite of absurdly unrealistic stomach padding.
		Since there are so few opera DVD's and so many other oppurtunities to see lewd behavior on the screen, I hope the opera DVD producers will produce more traditional approaches for old "stick in the muds" like me. Also other BBC productions have had suggestive or violent approaches in other operas.
	senior-exercises.com /prod/B00005Q783/Falstaff_(Royal_Opera_House).html (969 words)

	IDS: 'Falstaff' showcases talents of veteran conductor (Arts, 11/14/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Sir John Falstaff, the title role and object of Meg and company's devious plotting, is a unique dramatic character, said director Vince Liotta, who has directed around two dozen operas since joining IU's music faculty in 1995.
		Singing the part of Falstaff for the Saturday performances will be baritone Timothy Noble, a voice faculty member who has made Falstaff his signature role.
		"Falstaff is a larger-than-life role and you can do a lot more with it than sing it as an homage to Verdi," he said.
	www.idsnews.com /story.php?id=19792 (610 words)

	Falstaff, Sir John
		Entirely the creation of Shakespeare, Falstaff is said to have been partly modeled on Sir John Oldcastle, a soldier and the martyred leader of the Lollard sect.
		In Henry IV, Part 2, Falstaff and his disreputable crew are rejected by Hal, now Henry V, as he assumes the dignities of the crown.
		Falstaff's death is movingly reported in Henry V, but he makes another appearance in The Merry Wives of Windsor, a play that, according to (largely unsupported) tradition, was written at the express command of Queen Elizabeth I, who had wished to see Falstaff in love.
	search.eb.com /shakespeare/micro/202/95.html (316 words)

	Falstaff Salieri Verdi Shakespeare free music downloads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Keenly aware of his age and waning physical powers, he hesitated to embark on the work-yet he yearned to undertake an "opera buffa," and he had always been fascinated by the figure of Falstaff.
		You have longed for a good subject for a comic opera all your life, which proves you have a natural aptitude for the noble art of comedy.
		The opera's final quatrain, sung by the whole company, captures Falstaff's buoyant approach to life: "Tutto nel mondo è burla" ("everything in the world is a joke").
	mithec.prohosting.com /history/content/falstaff.html (429 words)

	Welcome to LA Opera \| LA Opera
		Falstaff opens Saturday, May 28 at 2:00 PM at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and runs for seven performances through June 15, 2005.
		Falstaff will be presented in repertory with a new production of Richard Strauss’s romantic comedy Der Rosenkavalier directed by Maximilian Schell and designed by Gottfried Helnwein.
		Falstaff had long been one of Verdi’s favorite literary characters and Boito’s libretto is one of the most successful adaptations of Shakespeare in opera.
	www.losangelesopera.com /company/news.asp?newsid=92 (710 words)

	Amazon.com: Music: Verdi - Falstaff / Terfel, Pieczonka, Hampson, Röschmann, Shtoda, Daidkova, Berlin Phil., Abbado (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A common failing of recent Falstaff recordings is the hole in the middle--the larger-than-life Sir John sung by baritones several sizes too small for the role, both vocally and dramatically.
		If some older recordings of the opera boast more distinctive touches (e.g., the way Cloe Elmo's Mistress Quickly relishes her repeated "reverenzas" for Toscanini), few are as well-matched.
		Yet FALSTAFF (based on the Shakespeare character) is probably one of the most fully integrated, finely written pieces of musical theater in the repertoire.
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