Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also making room for a Puccini tragedy. By Rebecca Schmid For Ambrogio Maestri, a ...

Reginald Smith. Jr. and Nicole Heaston in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane If you want to know what walking on air sounds like, turn your attention to Giuseppe Verdi’s last ...

When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only his second comic opera ever, it presents a homecoming of sorts. "What's ...

Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...

Translating Shakespeare to a new style is a theatrical tradition as time honored as the Bard himself. In the last couple of years, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has produced Coriolanus in Portland with ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. If Falstaff were an animal, he would be a peacock. He plays the beau in front of ...

NEWBURYPORT — The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with a special artist’s choice broadcast selected by Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Verdi’s ...

LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.

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However, the opera does not belong to any director, however imaginative, nor even to his ever-ingenious designer Ultz – but to Verdi, his inspirational librettist Boito, and the singers and players ...

With live opera so seldom presented in these parts, we die-hards may be happy to take what we can get. But the Greater Miami Opera's production of Falstaff at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center on ...

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