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Falstaff, based on The Merry Wives of Windsor, was Verdi’s third Shakespearean opera, an opera buffa which the composer ...

Sean Holmes’s revival of the Falstaff spin-off reputedly written at Elizabeth I’s request (it’s suggested she wanted to see ...

From the animatronic cat on the bar of the Garter inn to the rowers’ crew who haul their craft across the stage and the military ranks of “Dig for Victory” cabbages arrayed in Ford’s garden, all the ...

Globe's slimline Falstaff is a half-fat hero, in a Merry Wives Of Windsor that's not quite merry enough. By PATRICK MARMION . Published: 14:02 EDT, 10 July 2025 | Updated: 12:43 EDT, 11 July 2025 ...

GENEVA — Geneva Light Opera is presenting three fully staged performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s comic opera “Falstaff,” which is based on Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” later this month.

The company last staged Falstaff in 2013, but now it’s flashing back to the ’80s, with Lord Falstaff seeking to seduce two merry wives at a vibrant country club.

Even the most hardcore Bardolator would have to acknowledge that in a hierarchy of Shakespeare’s works, The Merry Wives of ...

Read our review of Falstaff at Glyndebourne: Richard Jones directs a masterful revival of Verdi's comic opera, featuring a discovery in Valentina Pernozzoli ...

Everything in Falstaff depends on pace and agility: the near-octogenarian composer’s music bustles, swerves and pivots at a fantastic lick. Those interminable breaks made it feel that we were watching ...