» Live Videos » Download Games » Flash Games » Game News » Media Forum

VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976)

Back


VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) video:


From the Glyndebourne Festival Opera 1976. Verdi's final work is a tribute to one of Shakespeare's comic characters, the roguish hero Falstaff. In order to avoid his bankruptcy, the old knight Falstaff courts Alice Ford and Meg Page, rich townsmen's wives. The two amused ladies as well as Falstaff's former old cronies (Pistola and Bardolfo) and Alice's jealous husband resolve to play a joke on the complacent and clumsy drunkard. But in the end the mocked Falstaff turns the tables and exposes everything as a game. The moral of this opera: "Tutto nel mondo é burla… Ma ride ben chi ride la risata final." (The whole world is but a joke and he laughs best who laughs last.) This lovely Glyndebourne production by Jean-Pierre Ponelle stars the "excellent" (Gramophone) Donald Gramm, who perfectly embodies the likeable loser Falstaff, supported by a cast of luminaries in the form of Benjamin Luxon, Elizabeth Gale and Kay Griffel. The late, great American baritone Gramm (1927-1983) had few equals among bass-baritones. As a regular member of the Metropolitan Opera Company (debuting in 1964) his roles ran the gamut from Monterverdi's The Coronation of Poppea through Handel's Messiah and Berlioz's Romeo et Juiliette to Stravinsky's Le Rossignol and Carl Orff's Der Mond. (Arthaus 101083) More Info: http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=101083

VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) Category: Music
VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) Uploaded: April 9th, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) Author: View naxosvideos's Other Uploaded Videos

VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) Length: 03:32
Rating:
VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) Views:

Tags: classical dvd arthaus musik verdi giuseppe pritchard john london philharmonic orchestra glyndebourne chorus

Links related to VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) video:


» View Video Comments For VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976)
» View naxosvideos's Other Uploaded Videos

VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) Video Thumbnails:


Thumbnail #1 Video Thumbnail #1:
Thumbnail #2 Video Thumbnail #2:
Thumbnail #3 Video Thumbnail #3:


Video Embedding Code:


Video Url:


Embed Code:

* Embed VERDI: Falstaff (Glyndebourne, 1976) video on your website, social bookmark, myspace, or blog.

Fun Game & Video Sites:

Download Free Games