The Opera Tattler
Reviews of Performances and their Audiences
Category: Falstaff
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* Notes * A 2013 production of Falstaff (Act II pictured, photograph by David Allen) set in a wine cask returned to Opera San José last weekend. There was much lovely singing and comedic physicality. Based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes that Falstaff appears in from Henry IV, Parts 1 and…
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Soprano Lisette Oropesa (pictured left, photograph by Matthew Murphy) will replace Heidi Stober as Nannetta in Falstaff on October 15, 2013. Stober is ill but expects to recover by the October 20 performance. Production Web Site | San Francisco Opera Press Releases
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Production Web Site | SF Opera's Blog So far, the reviews of San Francisco Opera's Falstaff (Act II pictured left photograph by Cory Weaver) are positive. Performance Reviews: San Francisco Chronicle | San Francisco Classical Voice | San Francisco Examiner | San Jose Mercury News
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* Notes * Lyric Opera of Chicago‘s current production of Falstaff (Act II, Scene 2 pictured left with Ainhoa Arteta as Alice Ford and Bryn Terfel as Sir John Falstaff, photograph by Cory Weaver) had an opening performance at San Francisco Opera yesterday. The set, from Frank Philipp Schlössmann, is a bit like a pop-up book…
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June 27- August 23 2008: FalstaffJune 28- August 22 2008: Le Nozze di FigaroJuly 12- August 21 2008: Billy BuddJuly 19- August 20 2008: RadamistoJuly 26- August 12 2008: Adriana Mater The next season at Santa Fe Opera includes the US premiere of Kaija Saariaho‘s newest opera. Naturally the production of Händel is from David…
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Two weekends ago I went to see Falstaff with a friend who graduated in Linguistics with me. It was much fun, the opera is funny and the staging was excellent. They had a wonderful model landscape background that included minute houses and even cows, and they did a fabulous rainy scene at the beginning. The…
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