Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: 102306D
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 807280230697
- Street Date: 09/01/13
- PreBook Date: 01/01/01
- Label: Arthaus Musik »
- Genre: Opera
- Run Time: 145 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Year of Production: 1995
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: US,MEXICO
Cast & Crew
- Director: Arnold Östman
Product Assets
Arnold Ostman - Falstaff
- List Price: $21.95
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Antonio Salieri set Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor” to music in 1799, and his work was successfully premiered in Vienna the same year. Michael Hampe staged Salieris’s Falstaff” at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival in 1995 with similar success – wonderfully supported by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Östman, Arnold.The libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi reduces Shakespeare’s original play to a few main characters and drastically simplifies the plot. This gives John Del Carlo, Teresa Ringholz, Richard Croft and Delores Ziegler a lot of space for their artistic interpretation and brilliant singing. The work lives from the wealth of the Italian opera buffa and absorbed influences from the German Singspiel” (song-play), and delights with a number of great arias.
