Falstaff (Zurich)

(2012)

Genres: Music

Year: 2012

Runtime: 127 мин

Country: Switzerland

Director: Felix Breisach

Cast: Barbara Frittoli, Massimo Cavalletti, Eva Liebau, Ambrogio Maestri

Plot

Features a great cast: Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers including Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianita in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdis commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life.