The irrepressible Sir John Falstaff has been variously described as a braggart and swaggart, the prince of rascals and by Giuseppe Verdi himself, “an amusing rogue.” No wonder the wealthy and ...

Washington National Opera (WNO) will present its sixth-annual Family Look-In, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of an opera, Saturday, October 17 at 3:00 p.m. at the Kennedy Center Opera House.

A scene from Opera Colorado's 2018 production of "Falstaff" at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver. “Falstaff” holds a special place in the career of legendary opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. It ...

The summer opera season got off to a boisterous start on Saturday night with Opera Saratoga's presentation of Verdi's "Falstaff." Based on Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor," the opera is a ...

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 ...

As bass baritone Craig Colclough tells it, being an opera singer seems like a lot of fun. Especially when you're playing "Falstaff." Colclough takes on the title role in Opera Saratoga's production of ...

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Garsington Opera at Wormsley is shown at the very top of its game in a sensational new production of Verdi’s Falstaff that sounds wonderful, looks brilliant and provides perfect entertainment for a ...

The composer made sure in his last opera that when the fantasies, schemes and hopes of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff are given apparent encouragement, only to be systematically unpicked and nixed, ...

Bruno Ravella's witty Garsington Verdi is a delight, with Henry Waddington a magnificent and deeply funny Falstaff and Richard Burkhard his perfectly matched Ford Garsington Opera (Photo: Marc ...

Falstaff is an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901). The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, ...