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 ...

Hera Hysesang Park as Nannetta, Ailyn Pérez as Alice, Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Robert Carsen’s ...

And yet the dreamy setting, the Wormsley estate where Garsington Opera has made its summer home for the past eight years, with its astonishing grounds and gardens, seems to impart an air of unreality, ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Maryland Lyric Opera will present Falstaff, the third production in its 2022-23 ...

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.

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 ...

The legendary closing line to the 1893 opera “Falstaff” — “All the world’s a joke, man is born a joker, and he who laughs last, laughs best” — signals how laughter evades every portion of life. With a ...

Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, "one of the great Falstaffs of this or any age" (San Francisco Classical Voice) owns Giuseppe Verdi's title role in a production from Lyric Opera of Chicago. The ...

Generally, it's said, people tend become more serious with the passing years. But after producing such dramatic masterpieces as "La Traviata," "Aida" and "Il Trovatore," the great Italian composer ...

Equally mischievous: Henry Waddington as Falstaff and Louise Winter as Mistress Quickly in Opera North’s production of Verdi’s Falstaff She says this shows they’re aspirational but living ...

Verdi’s Falstaff comes to life in a locally cast Lyrical Opera Theater production. Lynnette Owens of Lyrical Opera Theater previews their witty new production of Verdi’s Falstaff. Discover how local ...