The score features a flood of melodies, inexhaustible rhythms, and a quicksilver orchestral palette. Scene 1. The Garter Inn. The outraged Dr. Caius launches an attack on the boorish behavior of Falstaff and his sidekicks, Bardolph and Pistol, but they laugh off the complaints. In hopes of improving his fortunes, Falstaff plans to seduce two wealthy married women, Alice Ford and Meg Page. He composes identical love letters to both, which Bardolph and Pistol refuse to deliver. Falstaff lectures them on honor and sends a pageboy as messenger.
Scene 2. He proclaims his own affection for Alice, but proposes to hire Falstaff to smooth his way by seducing her first. Falstaff gladly accepts. Quickly reports to Alice and Meg on her visit with Falstaff. Meg and Quickly hide when Falstaff comes to pay suit. As Ford searches the house, Falstaff hides in a basket of dirty linen.
Hiding elsewhere are Nannetta and Fenton. Their noisy kissing sidetracks Ford, who has other marital plans for his daughter. Alice orders the servants to toss the laundry basket and its occupant out the window into the Thames River below. Mistress Quickly persuades Falstaff that Alice is contrite and wants another assignation, this time at midnight under an oak in Windsor Forest. Alice and the other townspeople decide to frighten Falstaff by dressing up as elves, fairies, demons and wood sprites.
Falstaff arrives disguised as a huntsman. Artist Website. June 27 - August 23, This event has passed. Synopsis Artists This event has passed. Verdi crowned a lifetime of operatic tragedies⦠⦠with this richly comic portrait of Sir John Falstaff. Music By. Giuseppe Verdi. Libretto By. Arrigo Boito. Act II. Act III. Laurent Naouri Baritone. Anthony Michaels-Moore Baritone. Kelley O'Connor Mezzo-soprano. Claire Rutter Soprano. Nancy Maultsby Mezzo-soprano.
Laura Giordano Soprano. Corey Bix Tenor. Keith Jameson Tenor. Wilbur Pauley Baritone. Norman Reinhardt Tenor. Franco Pomponi Baritone. Paolo Arrivabeni Conductor. Kevin Newbury Director. Allen Moyer Scenic Designer. Duane Schuler Lighting Designer. Susanne Sheston Chorus Director. Falstaff Tours Transportation Dining Talk. On this page This event has passed. Synopsis Artists.
