Falstaff (Zurich)(2012)

Name: Falstaff (Zurich)
Director: Felix Breisach
Genre: Music
Released: 2012-01-01
Duration: 127 min
Cast: Barbara Frittoli, Massimo Cavalletti, Eva Liebau, Ambrogio Maestri

Barbara Frittoli Massimo Cavalletti Eva Liebau Ambrogio Maestri

Features a great cast: Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers including Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianita in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdis commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life.