A great falstaff.
This is not done,but I am going to suggest you read my long review on this fine opera on Amazon.co.uk. I do not know why Amazon.com does not put Brit reviews on new releases on this site. We have yours. Dont miss this bluray,it is very good.
I felt this rather missed the point
I have seen many recordings of Falstaff and always feel the key to success is to somehow imply the Elizabethan ENGLISH nature of the story. Verdi made this wonderfully possible in his score despite it all being in Italian and a number of notable singers have brought the meat of the opera to the fore brilliantly, notably Geraint Evans all those years ago! The role of Sir John Falstaff is of course critical.
I compared this with the Glyndebourne recording with Christopher Purves and felt this production was too Teutonic. Falstaff was depicted as a grubby slob, a schmock, which of course he was but he still had those false illusions of being an English Lord. This production gave little or no hint of being English at all and just trundled out the score, well sung but without any English character. Sir John could have been anyone. For me it fell flat. It could just as easily have been set in Zurich, (which it was of course) and it looked like it. I blame the production and the...
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