* Falstaff, 9 February 1893

The first performance of Falstaff took place on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan to great success.

* 1893: Falstaff by Giuseppe Verdi

In 1893, he created the part of Ford in Verdi's last opera, Falstaff.

With that, their mutual friendship and respect blossomed and, though Verdi's projection for an opera based on King Lear never came to anything, Boito provided subtle and resonant libretti for Verdi's last masterpieces, Otello ( 1887 ) and Falstaff ( 1893 ).

* Falstaff ( Verdi ; 1893 )

A scene from the original production of Verdi's Falstaff ( opera ) | Falstaff ( 1893 ) as depicted by artist Ettore Tito.

*“ Notizen zu Verdis Falstaff ,” Die Zukunft, Band 3 ( 1893 ), p. 474-76.

Verdi's last opera, Falstaff ( 1893 ), broke free of conventional form altogether and finds music which follows quick flowing simple words and because of its respect for the pattern of ordinary speech, it created a threshold for a new operatic era in which speech patterns are paramount.

As sources, Shakespeare's plays provided Verdi with lifelong inspiration: some, such as King Lear were never realized but he wrote his two final operas using Othello as the basis for Otello ( 1887 ) and The Merry Wives of Windsor as the basis for Falstaff ( 1893 ).

In 1887, Maurel created the role of Iago in Otello at La Scala, Milan, and then, in 1893, he created the title role in Falstaff, again at La Scala.

His late opera based on William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff ossia Le tre burle ( Falstaff, or the Three Tricks ), ( 1799 ) has found a wider audience in modern times than its original reception promised.

Among the most successful of his 37 operas staged during his lifetime were Armida ( 1771 ), La fiera di Venezia ( 1772 ), La scuola de ' gelosi ( 1778 ), Der Rauchfangkehrer ( 1781 ), Les Danaïdes ( 1784 ), which was first presented as a work of Gluck's, La grotta di Trofonio ( 1785 ), Tarare ( 1787 ) ( Tarare was reworked and revised several times as was Les Danaïdes ), Axur, re d ' Ormus ( 1788 ), La cifra ( 1789 ), Palmira, regina di Persia ( 1795 ), Il mondo alla rovescia ( 1795 ), Falstaff ( 1799 ), and Cesare in Farmacusa ( 1800 ).

* Falstaff ( 1799 ), Antonio Salieri's opera, with a libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, which is also based upon The Merry Wives of Windsor.

* Falstaff ( 1913 ), a " symphonic study " by Elgar, which is a sympathetic and programmatic musical portrait.

Notorious for a life of dissipation and debauchery somewhat similar to Falstaff, he was among the first to mention Shakespeare in his work ( in Greene's Groats-Worth of Wit ), suggesting to Greenblatt that the older writer may have influenced Shakespeare's characterization.

Oxford editor George Hibbard argues that, since the contemporary literature contains many allusions and references to Hamlet ( only Falstaff is mentioned more, from Shakespeare ), the play was surely performed with a frequency that the historical record misses.

Notable among their contemporaries were the cultured and technically adroit French baritones Jean Lassalle ( hailed as the most accomplished baritone of his generation ), Victor Maurel ( the creator of Verdi's Iago, Falstaff and Tonio in Leoncavallo's Pagliacci ), Paul Lhérie ( the first Posa in the revised, Italian-language version of Don Carlos ), and Maurice Renaud ( a singing actor of the first magnitude ).

Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 184210 June 1918 ), aka Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito, pseudonym Tobia Gorrio, was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist and composer, best known today for his libretti, especially those for Giuseppe Verdi's operas Otello and Falstaff, and his own opera Mefistofele.

* Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 ( Sir John Falstaff ), National ( Olivier ), 2005

Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV.

He first achieved national recognition playing Ford in Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff.

* February 9-Première of Giuseppe Verdi's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan

* Giuseppe Verdi — Falstaff

* Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito, is based on the play, although, as with most operas adapted from the theatre, there are significant differences as to characters and plot.

In 1935, under Edgar Bainton ( Director 1934 – 48 ), the Conservatorium Opera School was founded, later performing works such as Giuseppe Verdi's Falstaff and Othello, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Die Walküre, and Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, among others.

She appeared as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and made her recording debut for EMI as Nannetta ( Falstaff ) under Herbert von Karajan, and as Musetta in La Bohème with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano and Rolando Panerai.

** Ford, Falstaff ( Giuseppe Verdi )

Known as the " Voce del leone " (" voice of the lion "), he was greatly admired, even by rival baritones, such as Giuseppe De Luca, who said of Ruffo: " His was not a voice, it was a miracle " ( although not often published is the second part of De Luca's conclusion "... which he bawled away ..."), and Victor Maurel, the creator of Verdi's Iago and Falstaff.

* Falstaff ( Giuseppe Verdi )-Mrs. Alice Ford

Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.

Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, whose libretto was also by Boito, was based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Victor Hugo's subsequent translation.

The illustrious French baritone Victor Maurel, who had created the role of Iago in Verdi's previous opera, Otello, sang Falstaff at the premiere.

" He points to the example of Verdi's Falstaff, whose musical text contains substantial contributions from the leader of the orchestra of La Scala which were apparently welcomed by the composer.

The prolific operas of these composers, plus the works of Verdi's maturity, such as Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos / Don Carlo, the revised Simon Boccanegra, Aida, Otello and Falstaff, blazed many new and rewarding performance pathways for baritones.

While in Amsterdam Monteux conducted operas, including Pelléas et Mélisande, its Dutch premiere, Carmen, The Tales of Hoffmann, a Lully and Ravel double bill of Acis et Galatée and L ' heure espagnole, Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride ( also brought to the Paris Opéra ) and Verdi's Falstaff.

The department has also worked with HMP Lewes since 1988 in projects such as inmate-designed puppet shows influenced by works such as Verdi's Falstaff.

In 1982 he returned once more to opera, conducting a widely acclaimed production of Verdi's Falstaff with the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

With exhilarating performances of Verdi's Rigoletto, Don Carlos, Otello and Falstaff, and Richard Strauss's Salome, Arabella, and Der Rosenkavalier, Kertész also proved himself a master of the finest of Italian romantic operas.

As this summer festival gained fame and stature as the premier venue for opera, drama, and classical concert presentation, its musical repertoire concentrated on Mozart and Strauss, but other works, such as Verdi's Falstaff and Beethoven's Fidelio, were also performed.

She also was well received as Alice Ford in Verdi's Falstaff.

* Arrigo Boito, composing a libretto for Verdi's opera Falstaff by improvising upon materials in Merry Wives and Henry IV, built the moonlit last act set in Windsor Great Park around a prank revenge played upon the amorous Falstaff by masqueraders disguised as spirits and the spectral " Black Huntsman ", in whom Herne the Hunter is recognizable.