Various - Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff

Falstaff is Verdi�s masterpiece of comic opera, in which the behaviour of the ageing Sir John Falstaff, a devious freeloader and would-be ladykiller, causes uproar in the petty-bourgeois household of the Windsor�s. In this performance stage and film director Mario Martone updates the action to the present day and shows Falstaff as ageing rebel in dodgy sideburns and leather jacket. Among the �exquisit vocal cast� (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), Michael Volle gives his debut in the title role �with masterly dynamic shadings� (Financial Times) and �as if he had been preparing for this role for a lifetime.� (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung) while �Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin are tickling out all the wit and all the momentum from this score.� (Online Merker)