Verdi: Falstaff

Salzburg Festival 1982

Giuseppe Taddei (Falstaff), Rolando Panerai (Ford), Francisco Araiza (Fenton), Christa Ludwig (Mistress Quickly), Raina Kabaivanska (Alice Ford), Janet Perry (Nannetta)

Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan

Release Date: 27th Jan 2023
Catalogue No: 761504
Label: C Major

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Verdi: Falstaff

Giuseppe Taddei (Falstaff), Rolando Panerai (Ford), Christa Ludwig (Mistress Quickly), Raina Kabaivanska (Alice Ford), Francisco Araiza (Fenton), Janet Perry (Nannetta), Trudeliese Schmidt (Meg Page), Piero de Palma (Dr Cajus), Federico Davia (Pistola), Heinz Zednik (Bardolfo)
Wiener Philharmoniker
Herbert von Karajan

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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, 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 Gunther Schneider-Siemssen.

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