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Opera Explained – Falstaff
- Author
- Thomson Smillie
- Narrator
- David Timson
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Publish Date
- 1 November 2004
- Run Time
- 1 hour 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Opera
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- Author
- Thomson Smillie
- Narrator
- David Timson
- Duration
- 1 hour 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 November 2004
- ISBN
- 9781843793274
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Naxos AudioBooks
- Genre
- Opera
Synopsis
Verdi’s Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera’s happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career – distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces – with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the eighty-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime. Falstaff is the last great Italian comic opera and a worthy end to the tradition.
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