Name: Falstaff
Start: 2025-04-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2025-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Staatsoper

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Calixto Bieito

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Susanne Gschwender

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Anja Rabes

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Bettina Auer

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Michael Bauer

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Finnegan Downie Dear

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Christian Günther

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Christopher Purves

Sir John Falstaff

Simon Keenlyside

Ford

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Seungwoo Simon Yang

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Jürgen Sacher

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Daniel Kluge

Bardolph

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Tigran Martirossian

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Danielle de Niese

Mrs. Alice Ford

Elbenita Kajtazi

Nannette

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Anna Kissjudit

Mrs. Quickly

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Kady Evanyshyn

Mrs. Meg Page

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Sir John Falstaff ist ein Anarchist, der sich nur der Herrschaft des eigenen Genusses beugt, ein Egoist, der nur seiner absolutistischen Macht- und Körperfül...

Sir John Falstaff ist ein Anarchist, der sich nur der Herrschaft des eigenen Genusses beugt, ein Egoist, der nur seiner absolutistischen Macht- und Körperfülle frönt und die spießigen Moralvorstellungen seiner Mitmenschen wie die Stadtmauern einer Festung schleifen möchte, indem er gleich zwei Frauen parallel zu verführen gedenkt. Natürlich geht das schief, aber diejenigen, die ihn entlarven möchten, lassen bei dem Verwirrspiel, das sie um ihn herum inszenieren – und das gerade noch der Zuschauer durchschaut –, auch gehörig Federn. „Tutto nel mondo è burla“, doch diese Possen sind nur lustig, weil der Sturz in den Abgrund ein durchaus ernstes Risiko darstellt. Der „Otello“-Librettist Arrigo Boito hat mit Raffinement aus der Shakespeare’schen Vorlage ein sprachlich ingeniöses Libretto herausdestilliert, das Verdi in hochkomplexe kompositorische Höhen treibt.

Deutsch

Sir John Falstaff is an anarchist who obeys only the reign of his own enjoyment, an egoist who feeds only his power-hunger and his own flesh, and who would prefer to raze the small-minded morals of his contemporaries like the walls of a fortress – by seducing two women at the same time. Needless to say, his plan is thwarted, but those trying to expose him also fail to emerge unruffled from the confusion they unleash around him – which only the audience can keep track of, barely. “Tutto nel mondo è burla,” but these jokes are only funny because falling into the abyss actually does pose quite a serious risk. Arrigo Boito, the librettist of “Otello”, distilled a sophisticated, ingenious libretto from Shakespeare’s original, driving Verdi to highly complex compositional heights.

Falstaff by Verdi, Sun 06 Apr 2025, From (2025/2025), Directed by Calixto Bieito,, Conductor Finnegan Downie Dear, Staatsoper, Hamburg, Germany

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