FALSTAFF. Tutto nel mondo è burla
Commedia lirica in tre atti, libretto di Arrigo Boito.
Music by
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Arrangiamento per ensemble da camera a cura di ALESSANDRO PALUMBO
Falstaff – whose composition started in1890 and finished when Verdi was almost 80 years old – closes the Verdian catalogue and represents a unique example of his mature composition style, after the youthful Un giorno di regno. “It’s been forty that I’ve wished to write a comic opera – wrote Verdi in 1890 – and it’s been fifty years that I’ve known Le allegre comari di Windsor; also… the usual “buts” that I find everywhere and that have always opposed to the satisfaction of this desire of mine.” Encouraged by the success of Otello, Arrigo Boito managed to convince the composer to work on a new libretto based on a Shakespearian subject. Falstaff was finally staged on February 9 of 1893 at Teatro alla Scala di Milano, gathering the awe of the audience and the applauses of Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni.
Dates
Teatro Giuseppe Verdi di Busseto
Friday, September 22, 2023 (8 pm)
Saturday, September 30, 2023 (8 pm)
Sunday, October 8, 2023 (3.30 pm)
Saturday, October 14, 2023 (8 pm)
Cast
| Sir John Falstaff | FRANCO VASSALLO |
Il cast coinvolgerà i giovani artisti già allievi del Corso di Alto perfezionamento in repertorio verdiano dell’Accademia Verdiana, molti dei quali hanno già intrapreso una fortunata carriera.
Arrangement for ensemble
Conductor
ALESSANDRO PALUMBO
Director
MANUEL RENGA
WIND-SOR ENSEMBLE
New production
