08/20/16 – Falstaff – 1pm

LA Opera On Air

Falstaff

• BY GIUSEPPE VERDI
• Two hours and 40 minutes, including one intermission
• SUNG IN ITALIAN
• front-page photo credit: Robert Millard

OVERVIEW

In honor of Verdi’s 200^th birthday, LA Opera presents a new production of the crowning glory of the composer’s magnificent career, his comic masterpiece Falstaff. LA Opera Music Director James Conlon, praised internationally for his mastery of Verdi, conducts this unabashed celebration of Merrie Olde England’s lusty days and bawdy nights, starring Italian baritone Roberto Frontali. When Shakespeare’s portly knight of Windsor hatches a plot to improve his love life by courting two different married women, he launches a flood of comic chaos and romantic misadventure.

CAST

• Sir John Falstaff

  Roberto Frontali

• Alice Ford

  Carmen Giannattasio

• Ford

  Marco Caria*

• Fenton

  Juan Francisco Gatell*

• Nannetta

  Ekaterina Sadovnikova*

• Meg Page

  Erica Brookhyser++

• Mistress Quickly

  Ronnita Nicole Miller++

• Dr. Caius (Nov. 9)

  Joel Sorensen

• Dr. Caius

  Robert Brubaker

• Bardolph

  Rodell Rosel

• Pistol

  Valentin Anikin+

CREATIVE TEAM

• Conductor

  James Conlon

• Director

  Lee Blakeley*

• Scenery and Costume Designer

  Adrian Linford*

• Lighting Designer

  Rick Fisher

• Choreographer

  Nicola Bowie

* LA Opera debut artist
+ Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program member
++ Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program alumnus