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    Falstaff (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfalstaf]) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted...
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    even to Verdi the song's trivial gaiety without realizing that its brashness was a calculated ironic foil." After Falstaff, Boito commented to Verdi "Now...
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    Sir John Falstaff is a fictional character who appears in three plays by William Shakespeare and is eulogised in a fourth. His significance as a fully...
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  • by Michael William Balfe Falstaff (Salieri) an opera by Antonio Salieri Falstaff (Verdi), an opera by Giuseppe Verdi Falstaff (Elgar), a symphonic study...
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  • (Britten) Mrs. Prin, Tabula Rasa (Felix Jarrar) Mistress Quickly, Falstaff (Verdi) Norn (I), Götterdämmerung (Wagner) Olga*, Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky)...
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    following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The list includes original creations as well as reworkings...
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    Marzellina, Fidelio (Beethoven) Musetta, La bohème (Puccini) Nannetta, Falstaff (Verdi) Norina, Don Pasquale (Donizetti) Ninetta, La finta semplice (Mozart)...
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  • (Strauss) Aida, Aida (Verdi) Alice Ford, Falstaff (Verdi) Amanda/Clitoria, Le Grand Macabre (Ligeti) Amelia, Un ballo in maschera, (Verdi) Angelica, Suor Angelica...
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    Arrigo Boito (category Giuseppe Verdi)
    operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Along...
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    Wives of Windsor as the basis for Falstaff (1893). The first version of Macbeth was completed during the time that Verdi described as his "galley years,"...
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  • Pong, Turandot (Puccini) Gastone, La traviata (Verdi) Roderigo, Otello (Verdi) Dr. Caius, Falstaff (Verdi) Gherardo, Gianni Schicchi (Puccini) King Kaspar...
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    Otello and Falstaff, which reveal how far Italian opera had grown in sophistication since the early 19th century. These final two works showed Verdi at his...
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    January 10, 1935) is an American dramatic baritone most famous for his Verdi roles. From 1965 until 1997 he was associated with the Metropolitan Opera...
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  • Falstaff (Verdi) – Herbert von Karajan: Giuseppe Taddei (John Falstaff) 1982 – Falstaff (Verdi) – Herbert von Karajan: Giuseppe Taddei (John Falstaff)...
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    Bellini's Norma (2013) as well as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore (2013 and 2016), and Alice in Verdi's Falstaff (2013/14), conducted by James Levine, which...
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    home, the Villa Verdi, in the village of Sant’Agata in Villanova sull'Arda. In 1913, Arturo Toscanini conducted a performance of Falstaff in celebration...
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    soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi admired, and therefore also referred to as...
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  • Facing Goya, Nyman, 2000 The Fair at Sorochyntsi, Mussorgsky, 1913 Falstaff, Verdi, 1893 La fanciulla del West, Puccini, 1910 Fantastic Mr. Fox, Picker...
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    Ford, Falstaff (Verdi) Vitellia, La clemenza di Tito (Mozart) Desdemona, Otello (Verdi) Anita, La Navarraise (Massenet) Luisa, Luisa Miller (Verdi) Cio-Cio...
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    Recording, Milan, Studi RAI. Falstaff (Verdi) – Siena – Teatro dei Rinnovati. Role: Nannetta. Cast: Mariano Stabile (Falstaff), Marcella Pobbe (Alice), Fedora...
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    One of the best known Italian Verdi baritones of the 1920s and 1930s, Mariano Stabile, sang Iago and Rigoletto and Falstaff (at La Scala) under the baton...
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    Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy) Dinorah, Dinorah (Meyerbeer) Nannetta, Falstaff (Verdi) The Princess/The Fire/The Nightingale, L'enfant et les sortilèges...
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  • Portuguese national epic. 1840 Un giorno di regno (Verdi). Verdi's only comedy apart from his last opera, Falstaff. 1842 Der Wildschütz (Albert Lortzing). Lortzing's...
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    Figaro, and in 1977 made both her San Francisco Opera debut as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera and her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Shepherd in...
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    Sanjust at the Royal Opera House in 1964. In 1966 Visconti's luscious Falstaff for the Vienna State Opera conducted by Leonard Bernstein was critically...
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    Arrigo Boito adapted these words of Falstaff for his libretto for the Verdi opera of the same name, but the Falstaff of the opera is essentially the buffo...
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    Zoraide – Ricciardo Rota Il cappello di paglia di Firenze – Fadinard Verdi Falstaff – Fenton Rigoletto – Duke of Mantua La Traviata – Alfredo Alahor in...
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  • National Opera, which culminated in his appearance in the title role of Verdi's Falstaff in 1992. He made his Metropolitan Opera début (as Eugene Onegin) in...
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  • This is a discography of Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff. It was first performed at La Scala, Milan, on 9 February 1893. The "Operadis" discography...
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    when the Mexican conductor Eduardo Mata hired him to sing Fenton in Verdi's Falstaff, and then Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni. Upon winning the Enrico...
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