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interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84_(%D0%94%D0%B6%D1%83%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%B5_%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B4%D0%B8)" title="Фалстаф (Джузепе Верди) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Фалстаф (Джузепе Верди)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff" title="Falstaff – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Falstaff" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(ooper)" title="Falstaff (ooper) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Falstaff (ooper)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A6%CE%AC%CE%BB%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%86" title="Φάλσταφ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Φάλσταφ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opero)" title="Falstaff (opero) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Falstaff (opero)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81_(%D8%A7%D9%BE%D8%B1%D8%A7)" title="فالستاف (اپرا) – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="فالستاف (اپرا)" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(op%C3%A9ra)" title="Falstaff (opéra) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Falstaff (opéra)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(%C3%B3pera)" title="Falstaff (ópera) – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Falstaff (ópera)" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%94%EC%8A%A4%ED%83%80%ED%94%84_(%EC%98%A4%ED%8E%98%EB%9D%BC)" title="팔스타프 (오페라) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="팔스타프 (오페라)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%96%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%BD%D5%BF%D5%A1%D6%86_(%D6%85%D5%BA%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A1)" title="Ֆալստաֆ (օպերա) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Ֆալստաֆ (օպերա)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A3_(%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%94)" title="פלסטף (אופרה) – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="פלסטף (אופרה)" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff" title="Falstaff – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Falstaff" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%81" title="فالستاف – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="فالستاف" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%83%E3%83%95" title="ファルスタッフ – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ファルスタッフ" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(%C3%B3pera)" title="Falstaff (ópera) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Falstaff (ópera)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84_(%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="Фальстаф (опера) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Фальстаф (опера)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84_(%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="Фалстаф (опера) – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Фалстаф (опера)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff" title="Falstaff – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Falstaff" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(Verdi)" title="Falstaff (Verdi) – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Falstaff (Verdi)" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falstaff_(opera)" title="Falstaff (opera) – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Falstaff (opera)" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Türkçe</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%84_(%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0)" title="Фальстаф (опера) – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Фальстаф (опера)" data-language-autonym="Українська" 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For operas by other composers, see <a href="/wiki/Falstaff_(Salieri)" title="Falstaff (Salieri)">Falstaff (Salieri)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Falstaff_(Balfe)" title="Falstaff (Balfe)">Falstaff (Balfe)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-style: italic;">Falstaff</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader" style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">Opera</a> by <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Lucien-Fug%C3%A8re-as-Falstaff.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Lucien-Fug%C3%A8re-as-Falstaff.jpg/180px-Lucien-Fug%C3%A8re-as-Falstaff.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="360" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1b/Lucien-Fug%C3%A8re-as-Falstaff.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="480" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/Lucien_Fug%C3%A8re" title="Lucien Fugère">Lucien Fugère</a> in the title role, 1894</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Librettist</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Arrigo_Boito" title="Arrigo Boito">Arrigo Boito</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">Italian</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i> and scenes from <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">Henry IV, Part 1</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2">Part 2</a></i><br />by <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Premiere</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline;" class="vevent">9 February 1893<span style="display: none;"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated itvstart">1893-02-09</span>)</span><br /><div style="display:inline;" class="summary"><a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a>, Milan</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>Falstaff</b></i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Italian pronunciation:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="it-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Italian" title="Help:IPA/Italian">[ˈfalstaf]</a></span>) is a comic <a href="/wiki/Opera" title="Opera">opera</a> in three acts by the Italian composer <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Giuseppe Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>. The Italian-language <a href="/wiki/Libretto" title="Libretto">libretto</a> was adapted by <a href="/wiki/Arrigo_Boito" title="Arrigo Boito">Arrigo Boito</a> from the play <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i> and scenes from <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">Henry IV, Part 1</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2">Part 2</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/William_Shakespeare" title="William Shakespeare">William Shakespeare</a>. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a>, Milan. </p><p>Verdi wrote <i>Falstaff</i>, the last of his 26 operas, as he approached the age of 80. It was his second comedy, and his third work based on a Shakespeare play, following <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth_(Verdi)" title="Macbeth (Verdi)">Macbeth</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Otello" title="Otello">Otello</a></i>. The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat knight <a href="/wiki/Sir_John_Falstaff" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir John Falstaff">Sir John Falstaff</a> to seduce two married women to gain access to their husbands' wealth. </p><p>Verdi was concerned about working on a new opera at his advanced age, but he yearned to write a comic work and was pleased with Boito's draft libretto. It took the collaborators three years from mid-1889 to complete. Although the prospect of a new opera from Verdi aroused immense interest in Italy and around the world, <i>Falstaff</i> did not prove to be as popular as earlier works in the composer's canon. After the initial performances in Italy, other European countries and the US, the work was neglected until the conductor <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a> insisted on its revival at La Scala and the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera" title="Metropolitan Opera">Metropolitan Opera</a> in New York from the late 1890s into the next century. Some felt that the piece suffered from a lack of the full-blooded melodies of the best of Verdi's previous operas, a view that Toscanini strongly opposed. Conductors of the generation after Toscanini who championed the work included <a href="/wiki/Herbert_von_Karajan" title="Herbert von Karajan">Herbert von Karajan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Georg Solti</a> and <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a>. The work is now part of the standard operatic repertory. </p><p>Verdi made numerous changes to the music after the first performance, and editors have found difficulty in agreeing on a definitive score. The work was first recorded in 1932 and has subsequently received many studio and live recordings. Singers closely associated with the title role have included <a href="/wiki/Victor_Maurel" title="Victor Maurel">Victor Maurel</a> (the first Falstaff), <a href="/wiki/Mariano_Stabile" title="Mariano Stabile">Mariano Stabile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Valdengo" title="Giuseppe Valdengo">Giuseppe Valdengo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tito_Gobbi" title="Tito Gobbi">Tito Gobbi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geraint_Evans" title="Geraint Evans">Geraint Evans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bryn_Terfel" title="Bryn Terfel">Bryn Terfel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ambrogio_Maestri" title="Ambrogio Maestri">Ambrogio Maestri</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Composition_history">Composition history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Composition history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Conception">Conception</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Conception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By 1889 Verdi had been an opera composer for more than fifty years. He had written 27 operas, of which only one was a comedy, his second work, <i><a href="/wiki/Un_giorno_di_regno" title="Un giorno di regno">Un giorno di regno</a></i>, staged unsuccessfully in 1840.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His fellow composer <a href="/wiki/Rossini" class="mw-redirect" title="Rossini">Rossini</a> commented that he admired Verdi greatly, but thought him incapable of writing a comedy. Verdi disagreed and said that he longed to write another light-hearted opera, but nobody would give him the chance.<sup id="cite_ref-klein_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klein-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had included moments of comedy even in his tragic operas, for example in <i><a href="/wiki/Un_ballo_in_maschera" title="Un ballo in maschera">Un ballo in maschera</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/La_forza_del_destino" title="La forza del destino">La forza del destino</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Verdi_Man_and_Musician_(1897)_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Verdi_Man_and_Musician_%281897%29_1.jpg/170px-Verdi_Man_and_Musician_%281897%29_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Verdi_Man_and_Musician_%281897%29_1.jpg/255px-Verdi_Man_and_Musician_%281897%29_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/83/Verdi_Man_and_Musician_%281897%29_1.jpg/340px-Verdi_Man_and_Musician_%281897%29_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="2911" /></a><figcaption>Verdi in 1897</figcaption></figure> <p>For a comic subject Verdi considered <a href="/wiki/Cervantes" class="mw-redirect" title="Cervantes">Cervantes</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Don_Quixote" title="Don Quixote">Don Quixote</a></i> and plays by <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Goldoni" title="Carlo Goldoni">Goldoni</a>, <a href="/wiki/Moli%C3%A8re" title="Molière">Molière</a> and <a href="/wiki/Labiche" class="mw-redirect" title="Labiche">Labiche</a>, but found none of them wholly suitable.<sup id="cite_ref-klein_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klein-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The singer <a href="/wiki/Victor_Maurel" title="Victor Maurel">Victor Maurel</a> sent him a French libretto based on Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/The_Taming_of_the_Shrew" title="The Taming of the Shrew">The Taming of the Shrew</a></i>. Verdi liked it, but replied that "to deal with it properly you need a Rossini or a <a href="/wiki/Donizetti" class="mw-redirect" title="Donizetti">Donizetti</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the success of <i><a href="/wiki/Otello" title="Otello">Otello</a></i> in 1887 he commented, "After having relentlessly massacred so many heroes and heroines, I have at last the right to laugh a little." He confided his ambition to the librettist of <i>Otello</i>, <a href="/wiki/Arrigo_Boito" title="Arrigo Boito">Arrigo Boito</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-klein_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klein-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Boito said nothing at the time, but he secretly began work on a libretto based on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i> with additional material taken from <i>Henry IV</i>, parts <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_1" title="Henry IV, Part 1">1</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV,_Part_2" title="Henry IV, Part 2">2</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-klein_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klein-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many composers had set the play to music, with little success, among them <a href="/wiki/Carl_Ditters_von_Dittersdorf" title="Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf">Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf</a> (1796), <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Salieri" title="Antonio Salieri">Antonio Salieri</a> (<a href="/wiki/Falstaff_(Salieri)" title="Falstaff (Salieri)">1799</a>), <a href="/wiki/Michael_William_Balfe" title="Michael William Balfe">Michael William Balfe</a> (1835) and <a href="/wiki/Adolphe_Adam" title="Adolphe Adam">Adolphe Adam</a> (1856).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first version to secure a place in the operatic repertoire was <a href="/wiki/Otto_Nicolai" title="Otto Nicolai">Otto Nicolai</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/The_Merry_Wives_of_Windsor_(opera)" title="The Merry Wives of Windsor (opera)">The Merry Wives of Windsor</a></i> in 1849, but its success was largely confined to German opera houses.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Boito was doubly pleased with <i>The Merry Wives</i> as a plot. Not only was it Shakespearian, it was based in part on <a href="/wiki/Trecento" title="Trecento">Trecento</a> Italian works – <i><a href="/wiki/Il_Pecorone" title="Il Pecorone">Il Pecorone</a></i> by Ser <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Fiorentino" title="Giovanni Fiorentino">Giovanni Fiorentino</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Boccaccio" class="mw-redirect" title="Boccaccio">Boccaccio</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Decameron" class="mw-redirect" title="Decameron">Decameron</a></i>. Boito adopted a deliberately archaic form of Italian to "lead Shakespeare's farce back to its clear Tuscan source", as he put it.<sup id="cite_ref-hso_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hso-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He trimmed the plot, halved the number of characters in the play,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and gave the character of <a href="/wiki/Falstaff" class="mw-redirect" title="Falstaff">Falstaff</a> more depth by incorporating dozens of passages from <i>Henry IV</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-hso_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hso-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Verdi received the draft libretto a few weeks later, by early July 1889, at a time when his interest had been piqued by reading Shakespeare's play: "Benissimo! Benissimo! ... No one could have done better than you", he wrote back.<sup id="cite_ref-PM700_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM700-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like Boito, Verdi loved and revered Shakespeare. The composer did not speak English, but he owned and frequently re-read Shakespeare's plays in Italian translations by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Carlo_Rusconi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carlo Rusconi (page does not exist)">Carlo Rusconi</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Giulio_Carcano&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Giulio Carcano (page does not exist)">Giulio Carcano</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Carcano" class="extiw" title="it:Giulio Carcano">it</a>]</span>, which he kept by his bedside.<sup id="cite_ref-gallo_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gallo-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had earlier set operatic adaptations of Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth" title="Macbeth">Macbeth</a></i> (in 1847) and <i><a href="/wiki/Othello" title="Othello">Othello</a></i> (in 1887) and had considered <i><a href="/wiki/King_Lear" title="King Lear">King Lear</a></i> as a subject; Boito had suggested <i><a href="/wiki/Antony_and_Cleopatra" title="Antony and Cleopatra">Antony and Cleopatra</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style="width:250px; ; color: #202122;background-color: #F6CED8;"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> <p>What a joy! To be able to say to the Audience: "We are here again!! Come and see us!!" </p> </blockquote> <div style="padding-bottom: 0; padding-top: 0.5em"><cite class="right-aligned" style="">Verdi to Boito, 8 July 1889<sup id="cite_ref-PM700_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM700-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div> </div> <p>Verdi still had doubts, and on the next day sent another letter to Boito expressing his concerns. He wrote of "the large number of years" in his age, his health (which he admitted was still good) and his ability to complete the project: "if I were not to finish the music?" He said that the project could all be a waste of the younger man's time and distract Boito from completing his own new opera (which became <i><a href="/wiki/Nerone_(Boito)" title="Nerone (Boito)">Nerone</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-PM700_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PM700-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yet, as his biographer <a href="/wiki/Mary_Jane_Phillips-Matz" title="Mary Jane Phillips-Matz">Mary Jane Phillips-Matz</a> notes, "Verdi could not hide his delight at the idea of writing another opera". On 10 July 1889 he wrote again: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Amen; so be it! So let's do <i>Falstaff</i>! For now, let's not think of obstacles, of age, of illnesses! I also want to keep the deepest <i>secrecy</i>: a word that I underline three times to you that no one must know anything about it! [He notes that his wife will know about it, but assures Boito that she can keep a secret.] Anyway, if you are in the mood, then start to write.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Composition">Composition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Composition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Boito's original sketch is lost, but surviving correspondence shows that the finished opera is not greatly different from his first thoughts. The major differences were that an act 2 monologue for Ford was moved from scene 2 to scene 1, and that the last act originally ended with the marriage of the lovers rather than with the lively vocal and orchestral <a href="/wiki/Fugue" title="Fugue">fugue</a>, which was Verdi's idea.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote to Boito in August 1889 telling him that he was writing a fugue: "Yes, Sir! A fugue<span class="nowrap"> </span>... and a <i>buffa</i> fugue", which "could probably be fitted in".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boito-1893.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Head and shoulder shot of middle-aged man, moustached, slightly balding" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Boito-1893.jpg/170px-Boito-1893.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4b/Boito-1893.jpg/255px-Boito-1893.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/4b/Boito-1893.jpg 2x" data-file-width="328" data-file-height="329" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Arrigo_Boito" title="Arrigo Boito">Boito</a> in 1893</figcaption></figure> <p>Verdi accepted the need to trim Shakespeare's plot to keep the opera within an acceptable length. He was sorry, nonetheless, to see the loss of Falstaff's second humiliation, dressed up as the Wise Woman of <a href="/wiki/Brentford" title="Brentford">Brentford</a> to escape from Ford.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He wrote of his desire to do justice to Shakespeare: "To sketch the characters in a few strokes, to weave the plot, to extract all the juice from that enormous Shakespearian orange".<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly after the premiere an English critic, <a href="/wiki/R_A_Streatfeild" class="mw-redirect" title="R A Streatfeild">R A Streatfeild</a>, remarked on how Verdi succeeded: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The leading note of [Falstaff]'s character is sublime self-conceit. If his belief in himself were shattered, he would be merely a vulgar sensualist and debauchee. As it is, he is a hero. For one terrible moment in the last act his self-satisfaction wavers. He looks round and sees every one laughing at him. Can it be that he has been made a fool of? But no, he puts the horrible suggestion from him, and in a flash is himself again. "Son io," he exclaims with a triumphant inspiration, "che vi fa scaltri. L'arguzia mia crea l'arguzia degli altri." ["I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men", a line from Henry IV part 2.] Verdi has caught this touch and indeed a hundred others throughout the opera with astonishing truth and delicacy.<sup id="cite_ref-s111_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-s111-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>In November Boito took the completed first act to Verdi at <a href="/wiki/Villa_Verdi" title="Villa Verdi">Sant'Agata</a>, along with the second act, which was still under construction: "That act has the devil on its back; and when you touch it, it burns", Boito complained.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They worked on the opera for a week, then Verdi and his wife <a href="/wiki/Giuseppina_Strepponi" title="Giuseppina Strepponi">Giuseppina Strepponi</a> went to Genoa. No more work was done for some time.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The writer Russ McDonald observes that a letter from Boito to Verdi touches on the musical techniques used in the opera – he wrote of how to portray the characters Nannetta and Fenton: "I can't quite explain it: I would like as one sprinkles sugar on a tart to sprinkle the whole comedy with that happy love without concentrating it at any one point."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first act was completed by March 1890;<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the rest of the opera was not composed in chronological order, as had been Verdi's usual practice. The musicologist <a href="/wiki/Roger_Parker" title="Roger Parker">Roger Parker</a> comments that this piecemeal approach may have been "an indication of the relative independence of individual scenes".<sup id="cite_ref-parker_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parker-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Progress was slow, with composition "carried out in short bursts of activity interspersed with long fallow periods" partly caused by the composer's depression. Verdi was weighed down by the fear of being unable to complete the score, and also by the deaths and impending deaths of close friends, including the conductors <a href="/wiki/Franco_Faccio" title="Franco Faccio">Franco Faccio</a> and <a href="/wiki/Emanuele_Muzio" title="Emanuele Muzio">Emanuele Muzio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-parker_31-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parker-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was no pressure on the composer to hurry. As he observed at the time, he was not working on a commission from a particular opera house, as he had in the past, but was composing for his own pleasure: "in writing <i>Falstaff</i>, I haven't thought about either theatres or singers".<sup id="cite_ref-parker_31-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parker-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reiterated this idea in December 1890, a time when his spirits were very low after Muzio's death that November: "Will I finish it [Falstaff]? Or will I not finish it? Who knows! I am writing without any aim, without a goal, just to pass a few hours of the day".<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By early 1891 he was declaring that he could not finish the work that year, but in May he expressed some small optimism, which by mid-June, had turned into: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>The Big Belly ["<i>pancione</i>", the name given to the opera before the composition of <i>Falstaff</i> became public knowledge] is on the road to madness. There are some days when he does not move, he sleeps, and is in a bad humour. At other times he shouts, runs, jumps, and tears the place apart; I let him act up a bit, but if he goes on like this, I will put him in a muzzle and straitjacket.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Maurel-iago.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="man in 16th century costume sitting in chair" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Maurel-iago.jpg/250px-Maurel-iago.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Maurel-iago.jpg/330px-Maurel-iago.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cf/Maurel-iago.jpg/340px-Maurel-iago.jpg 2x" data-file-width="405" data-file-height="524" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Victor_Maurel" title="Victor Maurel">Victor Maurel</a> as Iago in Boito and Verdi's <i><a href="/wiki/Otello" title="Otello">Otello</a></i></figcaption></figure> <p>Boito was overjoyed, and Verdi reported that he was still working on the opera. The two men met in October or November 1891,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after which the Verdis were in Genoa for the winter. They were both taken ill there, and two months of work were lost. By mid-April 1892 the scoring of the first act was complete and by June–July Verdi was considering potential singers for roles in <i>Falstaff</i>. For the title role he wanted Victor Maurel, the <a href="/wiki/Baritone" title="Baritone">baritone</a> who had sung Iago in <i>Otello</i>, but at first the singer sought contractual terms that Verdi found unacceptable: "His demands were so outrageous, exorbitant, [and] incredible that there was nothing else to do but stop the entire project".<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eventually they reached agreement and Maurel was cast.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By September Verdi had agreed in a letter to his publisher <a href="/wiki/Casa_Ricordi" title="Casa Ricordi">Casa Ricordi</a> that La Scala could present the premiere during the 1892–93 season, but that he would retain control over every aspect of the production. An early February date was mentioned along with the demand that the house would be available exclusively after 2 January 1893 and that, even after the dress rehearsal, he could withdraw the opera: "I will leave the theatre, and [Ricordi] will have to take the score away".<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The public learned of the new opera towards the end of 1892, and intense interest was aroused, increased rather than diminished by the secrecy with which Verdi surrounded the preparations; rehearsals were in private, and the press was kept at arm's length.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apart from Verdi's outrage at the way that La Scala announced the season's programme on 7 December – "either a revival of <i><a href="/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user_(opera)" title="Tannhäuser (opera)">Tannhäuser</a></i> or <i>Falstaff</i>" – things went smoothly in January 1893 up to the premiere performance on 9 February.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance_history">Performance history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Performance history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="nine drawings of elderly bearded man gesticulating or sitting" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg/220px-Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="299" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg/330px-Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg/440px-Verdi-at-Falstaff-rehearsal-1894.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3466" data-file-height="4703" /></a><figcaption>Verdi directing the rehearsals of <i>Falstaff</i></figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Premieres">Premieres</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Premieres"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first performance of <i>Falstaff</i> was at <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a> in Milan on 9 February 1893, nearly six years after Verdi's previous premiere. For the first night, official ticket prices were thirty times greater than usual.<sup id="cite_ref-h55_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h55-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Royalty, aristocracy, critics and leading figures from the arts all over Europe were present.<sup id="cite_ref-h55_41-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h55-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The performance was a huge success under the baton of <a href="/wiki/Edoardo_Mascheroni" title="Edoardo Mascheroni">Edoardo Mascheroni</a>; numbers were encored, and at the end the applause for Verdi and the cast lasted an hour.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That was followed by a tumultuous welcome when the composer, his wife and Boito arrived at the Grand Hotel de Milan.<sup id="cite_ref-h55_41-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h55-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the next two months the work was given twenty-two performances in Milan and then taken by the original company, led by Maurel, to Genoa, Rome, Venice, Trieste, Vienna and, without Maurel, to Berlin.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Verdi and his wife left Milan on 2 March; Ricordi encouraged the composer to go to the planned Rome performance of 14 April, to maintain the momentum and excitement that the opera had generated. The Verdis, along with Boito and Giulio Ricordi, attended together with <a href="/wiki/King_Umberto_I" class="mw-redirect" title="King Umberto I">King Umberto I</a> and other major royal and political figures of the day. The king introduced Verdi to the audience from the Royal Box to great acclaim, "a national recognition and apotheosis of Verdi that had never been tendered him before", notes Phillips-Matz.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg/220px-Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg/330px-Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg/440px-Adolfo_Hohenstein_-_Poster_for_first_French_production_of_Giuseppe_Verdi%27s_Falstaff.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8304" data-file-height="11736" /></a><figcaption>Poster for the Paris première of 1894, by <a href="/wiki/Adolfo_Hohenstein" title="Adolfo Hohenstein">Adolfo Hohenstein</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>During these early performances Verdi made substantial changes to the score. For some of these he altered his manuscript, but for others musicologists have had to rely on the numerous full and piano scores put out by Ricordi.<sup id="cite_ref-h83_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h83-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further changes were made for the Paris premiere in 1894, which are also inadequately documented. Ricordi attempted to keep up with the changes, issuing new edition after new edition, but the orchestral and piano scores were often mutually contradictory.<sup id="cite_ref-h83_47-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h83-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Verdi scholar James Hepokoski considers that a definitive score of the opera is impossible, leaving companies and conductors to choose between a variety of options.<sup id="cite_ref-h83_47-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h83-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a 2013 study Philip Gossett disagrees, believing that the autograph is essentially a reliable source, augmented by contemporary Ricordi editions for the few passages that Verdi omitted to amend in his own score.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first performances outside the Kingdom of Italy were in <a href="/wiki/Trieste" title="Trieste">Trieste</a> and Vienna, in May 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-h129_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h129-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The work was given in the Americas and across Europe. The Berlin premiere of 1893 so excited <a href="/wiki/Ferruccio_Busoni" title="Ferruccio Busoni">Ferruccio Busoni</a> that he drafted a letter to Verdi, in which he addressed him as "Italy's leading composer" and "one of the noblest persons of our time", and in which he explained that "<i>Falstaff</i> provoked in me such a revolution of spirit that I can ... date [to the experience] the beginning of a new epoch in my artistic life."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Antonio_Scotti" title="Antonio Scotti">Antonio Scotti</a> played the title role in <a href="/wiki/Buenos_Aires" title="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</a> in July 1893; <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Mahler" title="Gustav Mahler">Gustav Mahler</a> conducted the opera in <a href="/wiki/Hamburg" title="Hamburg">Hamburg</a> in January 1894; a Russian translation was presented in St Petersburg in the same month.<sup id="cite_ref-h76_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h76-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Paris was regarded by many as the operatic capital of Europe, and for the production there in April 1894 Boito, who was fluent in French, made his own translation with the help of the Parisian poet Paul Solanges.<sup id="cite_ref-h76_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h76-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This translation, approved by Verdi, is quite free in its rendering of Boito's original Italian text. Boito was content to delegate the English and German translations to <a href="/wiki/William_Beatty-Kingston" title="William Beatty-Kingston">William Beatty-Kingston</a> and <a href="/wiki/Max_Kalbeck" title="Max Kalbeck">Max Kalbeck</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-h76_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h76-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The London premiere, sung in Italian, was at Covent Garden on 19 May 1894. The conductor was <a href="/wiki/Luigi_Mancinelli" title="Luigi Mancinelli">Luigi Mancinelli</a>, and Zilli and Pini Corsi repeated their original roles. Falstaff was sung by Arturo Pessina; Maurel played the role at Covent Garden the following season.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 4 February 1895 the work was first presented at the <a href="/wiki/Metropolitan_Opera" title="Metropolitan Opera">Metropolitan Opera</a>, New York;<sup id="cite_ref-k461_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-k461-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mancinelli conducted and the cast included Maurel as Falstaff, <a href="/wiki/Emma_Eames" title="Emma Eames">Emma Eames</a> as Alice, <a href="/wiki/Z%C3%A9lie_de_Lussan" title="Zélie de Lussan">Zélie de Lussan</a> as Nannetta and <a href="/wiki/Sofia_Scalchi" title="Sofia Scalchi">Sofia Scalchi</a> as Mistress Quickly.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Neglect">Neglect</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Neglect"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png/170px-Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="251" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png/255px-Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png/340px-Bohumil_Benoni_jako_Falstaff_1894_Langhans.png 2x" data-file-width="679" data-file-height="1004" /></a><figcaption>Bohumil Benoni as Falstaff, 1894</figcaption></figure> <p>After the initial excitement, audiences quickly diminished. Operagoers were nonplussed by the absence of big traditional arias and choruses. A contemporary critic summed it up: "'Is this our Verdi?' they asked themselves. 'But where is the <i>motive</i>; where are the broad melodies ... where are the usual <i>ensembles</i>; the <i>finales</i>?'"<sup id="cite_ref-h129_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h129-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the time of Verdi's death in 1901 the work had fallen out of the international repertoire, though <a href="/wiki/Gustav_Mahler" title="Gustav Mahler">Gustav Mahler</a>, an admirer of Verdi, led a production of "exceptional quality" in 1904 at the Vienna Court Opera.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rising young conductor <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a> was a strong advocate of the work, and did much to save it from neglect. As musical director of La Scala (from 1898) and the Metropolitan Opera (from 1908), he programmed <i>Falstaff</i> from the start of his tenure. <a href="/wiki/Richard_Aldrich_(music_critic)" title="Richard Aldrich (music critic)">Richard Aldrich</a>, music critic of <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>, wrote that Toscanini's revival "ought to be marked in red letters in the record of the season. <i>Falstaff</i>, which was first produced here on February 4, 1895, has not been given since the following season, and was heard in these two seasons only half a dozen times in all."<sup id="cite_ref-aldrich_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aldrich-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Aldrich added that though the general public might have had difficulty with the work, "to connoisseurs it was an unending delight".<sup id="cite_ref-aldrich_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-aldrich-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In Britain, as in continental Europe and the US, the work fell out of the repertoire. <a href="/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Beecham" class="mw-redirect" title="Sir Thomas Beecham">Sir Thomas Beecham</a> revived it in 1919, and recalling in his memoirs that the public had stayed away he commented: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>I have often been asked why I think <i>Falstaff</i> is not more of a box-office attraction, and I do not think the answer is far to seek. Let it be admitted that there are fragments of melody as exquisite and haunting as anything that Verdi has written elsewhere, such as the duet of Nanetta and Fenton in the first act and the song of Fenton at the beginning of the final scene, which have something of the lingering beauty of an Indian summer. But in comparison with every other work of the composer, it is wanting in tunes of a broad and impressive character, and one or two of the type of "O Mia Regina", "Ritorna Vincitor", or "Ora per sempre addio" might have helped the situation.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Toscanini recognised that this was the view of many, but he believed the work to be Verdi's greatest opera; he said, "I believe it will take years and years before the general public understand this masterpiece, but when they really know it they will run to hear it like they do now for <i>Rigoletto</i> and <i>La traviata</i>."<sup id="cite_ref-civetta_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-civetta-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Re-emergence">Re-emergence</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Re-emergence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Toscanini_8.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="head and shoulder shot of a man in a suit with moustache" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Toscanini_8.jpg/250px-Toscanini_8.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Toscanini_8.jpg/330px-Toscanini_8.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e7/Toscanini_8.jpg/500px-Toscanini_8.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1670" data-file-height="2206" /></a><figcaption>The conductor <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a>, who strove to return <i>Falstaff</i> to the regular repertory</figcaption></figure> <p>Toscanini returned to La Scala in 1921 and remained in charge there until 1929, presenting <i>Falstaff</i> in every season. He took the work to Germany and Austria in the late 1920s and the 1930s, conducting it in Vienna, Berlin and at three successive <a href="/wiki/Salzburg_Festival" title="Salzburg Festival">Salzburg Festivals</a>. Among those inspired by Toscanini's performances were <a href="/wiki/Herbert_von_Karajan" title="Herbert von Karajan">Herbert von Karajan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Georg_Solti" title="Georg Solti">Georg Solti</a>, who were among his <i><a href="/wiki/R%C3%A9p%C3%A9titeur" title="Répétiteur">répétiteurs</a></i> at Salzburg. Toscanini's younger colleague <a href="/wiki/Tullio_Serafin" title="Tullio Serafin">Tullio Serafin</a> continued to present the work in Germany and Austria after Toscanini refused to perform there because of his loathing of the Nazi regime.<sup id="cite_ref-o151_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-o151-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Karajan was in a position to do so he added <i>Falstaff</i> to the repertoire of his opera company at <a href="/wiki/Aachen" title="Aachen">Aachen</a> in 1941,<sup id="cite_ref-o151_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-o151-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he remained a proponent of the work for the rest of his career, presenting it frequently in Vienna, Salzburg and elsewhere, and making audio and video recordings of it.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Solti also became closely associated with <i>Falstaff</i>, as did <a href="/wiki/Carlo_Maria_Giulini" title="Carlo Maria Giulini">Carlo Maria Giulini</a>; they both conducted many performances of the work in mainland Europe, Britain and the US and made several recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Bernstein" title="Leonard Bernstein">Leonard Bernstein</a> conducted the work at the Met and the <a href="/wiki/Vienna_State_Opera" title="Vienna State Opera">Vienna State Opera</a>, and on record.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The advocacy of these and later conductors has given the work an assured place in the modern repertoire.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among revivals in the 1950s and later, Hepokoski singles out as particularly notable the <a href="/wiki/Glyndebourne_Festival_Opera" title="Glyndebourne Festival Opera">Glyndebourne</a> productions with <a href="/wiki/Fernando_Corena" title="Fernando Corena">Fernando Corena</a> and later <a href="/wiki/Geraint_Evans" title="Geraint Evans">Geraint Evans</a> in the title role; three different stagings by <a href="/wiki/Franco_Zeffirelli" title="Franco Zeffirelli">Franco Zeffirelli</a>, for the <a href="/wiki/Holland_Festival" title="Holland Festival">Holland Festival</a> (1956), Covent Garden (1961) and the Metropolitan Opera (1964); and <a href="/wiki/Luchino_Visconti" title="Luchino Visconti">Luchino Visconti</a>'s 1966 version in Vienna.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A 1982 production by <a href="/wiki/Ronald_Eyre" title="Ronald Eyre">Ronald Eyre</a>, more reflective and melancholy than usual, was staged in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>, London and <a href="/wiki/Florence" title="Florence">Florence</a>; <a href="/wiki/Renato_Bruson" title="Renato Bruson">Renato Bruson</a> was Falstaff and Giulini conducted.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among more recent players of the title role <a href="/wiki/Bryn_Terfel" title="Bryn Terfel">Bryn Terfel</a> has taken the part at Covent Garden in 1999, in a production by <a href="/wiki/Graham_Vick" title="Graham Vick">Graham Vick</a>, conducted by <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Haitink" title="Bernard Haitink">Bernard Haitink</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at the Metropolitan Opera in a revival of the Zeffirelli production, conducted by <a href="/wiki/James_Levine" title="James Levine">James Levine</a> in 2006.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although <i>Falstaff</i> has become a regular repertoire work there nonetheless remains a view expressed by John von Rhein in the <i><a href="/wiki/Chicago_Tribune" title="Chicago Tribune">Chicago Tribune</a></i> in 1985: "<i>Falstaff</i> probably always will fall into the category of 'connoisseur's opera' rather than taking its place as a popular favorite on the order of <i>La traviata</i> or <i>Aida.</i>"<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Roles">Roles</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Roles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg/220px-Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="313" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg/330px-Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg/440px-Teatro_Sociale_di_Trento._Sabato_30_giugno_1894_alle_ore_9_pom._grande.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4496" data-file-height="6406" /></a><figcaption>"Falstaff" in a theatre playbill, preserved in the Municipal Library of Trento</figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <caption><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Roles, voice types, premiere cast</span> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Role </th> <th><a href="/wiki/Voice_type" title="Voice type">Voice type</a> </th> <th>Premiere cast, 9 February 1893<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /><a href="/wiki/Conducting" title="Conducting">Conductor</a>: <a href="/wiki/Edoardo_Mascheroni" title="Edoardo Mascheroni">Edoardo Mascheroni</a><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Sir John <a href="/wiki/Falstaff" class="mw-redirect" title="Falstaff">Falstaff</a>, <i>a fat knight</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bass-baritone" title="Bass-baritone">bass-baritone</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Victor_Maurel" title="Victor Maurel">Victor Maurel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Ford, <i>a wealthy man</i> </td> <td>baritone </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Antonio_Pini-Corsi" title="Antonio Pini-Corsi">Antonio Pini-Corsi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Alice Ford, <i>his wife</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Soprano" title="Soprano">soprano</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Emma_Zilli" title="Emma Zilli">Emma Zilli</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Nannetta, <i>their daughter</i> </td> <td>soprano </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Adelina_Stehle" title="Adelina Stehle">Adelina Stehle</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Meg Page </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mezzo-soprano" title="Mezzo-soprano">mezzo-soprano</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Virginia_Guerrini" title="Virginia Guerrini">Virginia Guerrini</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mistress_Quickly" title="Mistress Quickly">Mistress Quickly</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Contralto" title="Contralto">contralto</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giuseppina_Pasqua" title="Giuseppina Pasqua">Giuseppina Pasqua</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Fenton, <i>one of Nannetta's suitors</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tenor" title="Tenor">tenor</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Edoardo_Garbin" title="Edoardo Garbin">Edoardo Garbin</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Dr Caius </td> <td>tenor </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Paroli" title="Giovanni Paroli">Giovanni Paroli</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Bardolph_(Shakespeare_character)" title="Bardolph (Shakespeare character)">Bardolfo</a>, <i>a follower of Falstaff</i> </td> <td>tenor </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Paolo_Pelagalli-Rossetti" title="Paolo Pelagalli-Rossetti">Paolo Pelagalli-Rossetti</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Pistol" title="Ancient Pistol">Pistola</a>, <i>a follower of Falstaff</i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Bass_(voice_type)" title="Bass (voice type)">bass</a> </td> <td>Vittorio Arimondi </td></tr> <tr> <td>Mine Host of the Garter Inn </td> <td>silent </td> <td>Attilio Pulcini </td></tr> <tr> <td>Robin, <i>Falstaff's page</i> </td> <td>silent </td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">Chorus of townspeople, Ford's servants, and masqueraders dressed as fairies etc. </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synopsis">Synopsis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Synopsis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>Time: The reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_IV_of_England" title="Henry IV of England">Henry IV</a>, 1399 to 1413<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl> <dl><dd>Place: <a href="/wiki/Windsor,_Berkshire" title="Windsor, Berkshire">Windsor</a>, England</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_1">Act 1</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Act 1"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Falstaff_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Falstaff_3.jpg/330px-Falstaff_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Falstaff_3.jpg/495px-Falstaff_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Falstaff_3.jpg/660px-Falstaff_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3539" data-file-height="2362" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ambrogio_Maestri" title="Ambrogio Maestri">Ambrogio Maestri</a> as Falstaff in the 2016 <a href="/wiki/Vienna_State_Opera" title="Vienna State Opera">Vienna State Opera</a> production, directed by <a href="/wiki/David_McVicar" title="David McVicar">David McVicar</a>, conducted by <a href="/wiki/Zubin_Mehta" title="Zubin Mehta">Zubin Mehta</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>A room at the Garter Inn</i> </p><p>Falstaff and his servants, Bardolfo and Pistola, are drinking at the inn. Dr Caius bursts in and accuses Falstaff of burgling his house and Bardolfo of picking his pocket. Falstaff laughs at him; he leaves, vowing only to go drinking with honest, sober companions in future. When the innkeeper presents a bill for the wine, Falstaff tells Bardolfo and Pistola that he needs more money, and plans to obtain it by seducing the wives of two rich men, one of whom is Ford. Falstaff hands Bardolfo a love-letter to one of the wives (Alice Ford), and hands Pistola an identical letter addressed to the other (Meg). Bardolfo and Pistola refuse to deliver the letters, claiming that honour prevents them from obeying him. Falstaff loses his temper and rants at them, saying that "honour" is nothing but a word, with no meaning (Monologue: "L'onore! Ladri ... !" / "Honour! You rogues ... !") Brandishing a broom, he chases them out of his sight. </p><p><i>Ford's garden</i> </p><p>Alice and Meg have received Falstaff's letters. They compare them, see that they are identical and, together with Mistress Quickly and Nannetta Ford, resolve to punish Falstaff. Meanwhile, Bardolfo and Pistola warn Ford of Falstaff's plan. Ford resolves to disguise himself and visit Falstaff and set a trap for him. </p><p>A young, handsome fellow called Fenton is in love with Ford's daughter Nannetta, but Ford wants her to marry Dr. Caius, who is wealthy and respected. Fenton and Nannetta enjoy a moment of privacy, but are interrupted by the return of Alice, Meg and Mistress Quickly. The act ends with an ensemble in which the women and the men separately plan revenge on Falstaff, the women gleefully anticipating an enjoyable prank, while the men angrily mutter dire threats. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_2">Act 2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Act 2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>A room at the Garter Inn</i> </p><p>Falstaff is alone at the inn. Bardolfo and Pistola, now in the pay of Ford, enter and beg Falstaff to allow them to re-enter his service, secretly planning to spy on him for Ford. Mistress Quickly enters and tells him that Alice is in love with him and will be alone in Ford's home that afternoon, from two o'clock until three o'clock, just time for an amorous dalliance. Falstaff celebrates his potential success ("Va, vecchio John" / "Go, old Jack, go your own way"). </p><p>Ford arrives, masquerading as a wealthy stranger, using the false name "Signor Fontana". He tells Falstaff that he is in love with Alice, but she is too virtuous to entertain him. He offers to pay Falstaff to use his impressive title and (alleged) charms to seduce her away from her virtuous convictions, after which he ("Fontana") might have a better chance of seducing her himself. Falstaff, delighted at the prospect of being paid to seduce the wealthy and beautiful woman, agrees, and reveals that he already has a rendezvous arranged with Alice for two o'clock – the hour when Ford is always absent from home. Ford is consumed with jealousy, but conceals his feelings. Falstaff withdraws to a private room to change into his finest clothes, and Ford, left alone, reflects on the evil of an uncertain marriage and vows to have revenge ("È sogno o realtà?" / "Is it a dream or reality?"). When Falstaff returns in his finery, they leave together with elaborate displays of mutual courtesy. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="engraving of scene from Falstaff with the lovers behind a screen and Falstaff hidden in the laundry basket" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg/330px-Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg" decoding="async" width="330" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg/500px-Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg/960px-Ettore_Tito_-The_Production_of_Verdi%27s_Falstaff_at_Milan_-_Falstaff_Concealed_in_the_Buck-Basket_in_Ford%27s_House.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7328" data-file-height="5660" /></a><figcaption> Engraving by <a href="/wiki/Ettore_Tito" title="Ettore Tito">Ettore Tito</a> of act 2, scene 2, from the original production. Ford and the servants creep towards Fenton and Nannetta, who they think are Falstaff and Alice, behind the screen, while the women stifle Falstaff in the laundry basket.</figcaption></figure> <p><i>A room in Ford's house</i> </p><p>The three women plot their strategy ("Gaie Comari di Windsor" / "Merry wives of Windsor, the time has come!"). Alice notices that Nannetta is too unhappy and anxious to share their gleeful anticipation. This is because Ford plans to marry her to Dr Caius, a man old enough to be her grandfather; the women reassure her that they will prevent it. Mistress Quickly announces Falstaff's arrival, and Mistress Ford has a large laundry basket and a screen placed in readiness. Falstaff attempts to seduce Alice with tales of his past youth and glory ("Quand'ero paggio del Duca di Norfolk" / "When I was page to the Duke of Norfolk I was slender"). Mistress Quickly rushes in, shouting that Ford has returned home unexpectedly with a retinue of henchmen to catch his wife's lover. Falstaff hides first behind the screen, but realizes that Ford will likely look for him there. The women urge him to hide in the laundry basket, which he does. In the meantime Fenton and Nannetta hide behind the screen for another moment of privacy. Ford and his men storm in and search for Falstaff, and hear the sound of Fenton and Nannetta kissing behind the screen. They assume it is Falstaff with Alice, but instead they find the young lovers. Ford orders Fenton to leave. Badly cramped and almost suffocating in the laundry hamper, Falstaff moans with discomfort while the men resume the search of the house. Alice orders her servants to throw the laundry basket through the window into the <a href="/wiki/River_Thames" title="River Thames">River Thames</a>, where Falstaff endures the jeers of the crowd. Ford, seeing that Alice had never intended to betray him, smiles happily. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Act_3">Act 3</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Act 3"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Un_piazzale,_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera,_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_(1893)_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Un_piazzale%2C_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera%2C_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_%281893%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg/220px-Un_piazzale%2C_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera%2C_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_%281893%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Un_piazzale%2C_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera%2C_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_%281893%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg/330px-Un_piazzale%2C_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera%2C_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_%281893%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Un_piazzale%2C_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera%2C_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_%281893%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg/440px-Un_piazzale%2C_a_destra_l%27esterno_dell%27Osteria_della_Giarrettiera%2C_bozzetto_di_Adolf_Hohenstein_per_Falstaff_%281893%29_-_Archivio_Storico_Ricordi_ICON000166.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5300" data-file-height="3804" /></a><figcaption><i>Un piazzale, a destra l'esterno dell'Osteria della Giarrettiera</i>, set design for <i>Falstaff</i> act 3 scene 1 (1893).</figcaption></figure> <p><i>Before the inn</i> </p><p>Falstaff, cold and discouraged, glumly curses the sorry state of the world. Some <a href="/wiki/Mulled_wine" title="Mulled wine">mulled wine</a> soon improves his mood. Mistress Quickly arrives and delivers another invitation to meet Alice. Falstaff at first wants nothing to do with it, but she persuades him. He is to meet Alice at midnight at Herne's Oak in <a href="/wiki/Windsor_Great_Park" title="Windsor Great Park">Windsor Great Park</a> dressed up as the ghost of <a href="/wiki/Herne_the_Hunter" title="Herne the Hunter">Herne the Hunter</a> who, according to local superstition, haunts the area near the tree, and appears there at midnight with a band of supernatural spirits. He and Mistress Quickly go inside the inn. Ford has realized his error in suspecting his wife, and they and their allies have been watching secretly. They now concoct a plan for Falstaff's punishment: dressed as supernatural creatures, they will ambush and torment him at midnight. Ford draws Dr. Caius aside and privately proposes a separate plot to marry him to Nannetta: Nannetta will be disguised as Queen of the Fairies, Caius will wear a monk's costume, and Ford will join the two of them with a nuptial blessing. Mistress Quickly overhears and quietly vows to thwart Ford's scheme. </p><p><i>Herne's Oak in Windsor Park on a moonlit midnight</i> </p><p>Fenton arrives at the oak tree and sings of his happiness ("Dal labbro il canto estasiato vola" / "From my lips, a song of ecstasy flies") ending with "Lips that are kissed lose none of their allure." Nannetta enters to finish the line with "Indeed, they renew it, like the moon." The women arrive and disguise Fenton as a monk, telling him that they have arranged to spoil Ford's and Caius's plans. Nannetta, as the Fairy Queen, instructs her helpers ("Sul fil d'un soffio etesio" / "On the breath of a fragrant breeze, fly, nimble spirits") before all the characters arrive on the scene. Falstaff's attempted love scene with Alice is interrupted by the announcement that witches are approaching, and the men, disguised as elves and fairies, soundly thrash Falstaff. In the middle of the beating, he recognizes Bardolfo in disguise. The joke is over, and Falstaff acknowledges that he has received his due. Ford announces that a wedding will ensue. Caius and the Queen of the Fairies enter. A second couple, also in masquerade, ask Ford to deliver the same blessing for them as well. Ford conducts the double ceremony. Caius finds that instead of Nannetta, his bride is the disguised Bardolfo, and Ford has unwittingly blessed the marriage of Fenton and Nannetta. Ford accepts the <i>fait accompli</i> with good grace. Falstaff, pleased to find himself not the only dupe, proclaims that all the world is folly, and all are figures of fun ("Tutto nel mondo è burla ... Tutti gabbati!...Ma ride ben chi ride La risata final." / "Everything in the world is a jest ... but he laughs well who laughs the final laugh"). The entire company repeats his proclamation in an exuberant ten-voice fugue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Music_and_drama">Music and drama</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Music and drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Verdi scored <i>Falstaff</i> for three <a href="/wiki/Western_concert_flute" title="Western concert flute">flutes</a> (third doubling <a href="/wiki/Piccolo" title="Piccolo">piccolo</a>), two <a href="/wiki/Oboe" title="Oboe">oboes</a>, <a href="/wiki/English_horn" class="mw-redirect" title="English horn">English horn</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Clarinet" title="Clarinet">clarinets</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bass_clarinet" title="Bass clarinet">bass clarinet</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Bassoon" title="Bassoon">bassoons</a>, four <a href="/wiki/Horn_(music)" class="mw-redirect" title="Horn (music)">horns</a>, three <a href="/wiki/Trumpet" title="Trumpet">trumpets</a>, three <a href="/wiki/Trombone" title="Trombone">trombones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cimbasso" title="Cimbasso">cimbasso</a>, <a href="/wiki/Timpani" title="Timpani">timpani</a>, percussion (<a href="/wiki/Triangle_(musical_instrument)" title="Triangle (musical instrument)">triangle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cymbal" title="Cymbal">cymbals</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bass_drum" title="Bass drum">bass drum</a>), <a href="/wiki/Harp" title="Harp">harp</a>, and <a href="/wiki/String_section" title="String section">strings</a>. In addition, a <a href="/wiki/Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a>, <a href="/wiki/Natural_horn" title="Natural horn">natural horn</a>, and bell are heard from offstage.<sup id="cite_ref-score-intro_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-score-intro-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike most of Verdi's earlier operatic scores, <i>Falstaff</i> is <a href="/wiki/Through-composed" class="mw-redirect" title="Through-composed">through-composed</a>. No list of numbers is printed in the published full score.<sup id="cite_ref-score-intro_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-score-intro-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The score differs from much of Verdi's earlier work by having no overture: there are seven bars for the orchestra before the first voice (Dr Caius) enters.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The critic <a href="/wiki/Rodney_Milnes" title="Rodney Milnes">Rodney Milnes</a> comments that "enjoyment<span class="nowrap"> </span>... shines from every bar in its irresistible forward impulse, its effortless melody, its rhythmic vitality, and sureness of dramatic pace and construction."<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The New Grove Dictionary of Opera</i>, Roger Parker writes that: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>the listener is bombarded by a stunning diversity of rhythms, orchestral textures, melodic motifs and harmonic devices. Passages that in earlier times would have furnished material for an entire number here crowd in on each other, shouldering themselves unceremoniously to the fore in bewildering succession.<sup id="cite_ref-parker_31-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parker-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Boito-Verd-Falstaff-Ricordi-libretto-1893.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="front cover of musical score" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/74/Boito-Verd-Falstaff-Ricordi-libretto-1893.jpg/250px-Boito-Verd-Falstaff-Ricordi-libretto-1893.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/74/Boito-Verd-Falstaff-Ricordi-libretto-1893.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="254" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption>First edition cover</figcaption></figure> <p>The opera was described by its creators as a <i>commedia lirica</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McDonald commented in 2009 that <i>Falstaff</i> is very different – a stylistic departure – from Verdi's earlier work.<sup id="cite_ref-McD_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McD-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In McDonald's view most of the musical expression is in the dialogue, and there is only one traditional aria.<sup id="cite_ref-McD_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McD-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The result is that "such stylistic economy – more sophisticated, more challenging than he had employed before – is the keynote of the work." McDonald argues that consciously or unconsciously, Verdi was developing the idiom that would come to dominate the music of the 20th century: "the lyricism is abbreviated, glanced at rather than indulged. Melodies bloom suddenly and then vanish, replaced by contrasting tempo or an unexpected phrase that introduces another character or idea".<sup id="cite_ref-McD_78-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McD-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In McDonald's view the orchestral writing acts as a sophisticated commentator on the action.<sup id="cite_ref-McD_78-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McD-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has influenced at least one of Verdi's operatic successors: in 1952 <a href="/wiki/Imogen_Holst" title="Imogen Holst">Imogen Holst</a>, musical assistant to <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_Britten" title="Benjamin Britten">Benjamin Britten</a>, wrote, after a performance of <i>Falstaff</i>, "I realised for the first time how much Ben owes to [Verdi]. There are orchestral bits which are <i>just</i> as funny to listen to as the comic instrumental bits in <i><a href="/wiki/Albert_Herring" title="Albert Herring">A. Herring</a></i>!"<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The extent to which <i>Falstaff</i> is a "Shakespearian" opera has often been debated by critics. Although the action is taken from <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i>, some commentators feel that Boito and Verdi have transmuted Shakespeare's play into a wholly Italian work. The soprano <a href="/wiki/Elisabeth_Schwarzkopf" title="Elisabeth Schwarzkopf">Elisabeth Schwarzkopf</a> believed there was nothing English or Shakespearian about the comedy: "it was all done through the music".<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1961 <a href="/wiki/Peter_Heyworth" title="Peter Heyworth">Peter Heyworth</a> wrote in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, "Because of Shakespeare we like to think of <i>Falstaff</i> as a work that has a certain Englishness. In fact the opera is no more English than <i><a href="/wiki/Aida" title="Aida">Aida</a></i> is Egyptian. Boito and Verdi between them transformed the fat knight into one of the archetypes of <i><a href="/wiki/Opera_buffa" title="Opera buffa">opera buffa</a></i>."<sup id="cite_ref-ph_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ph-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Verdi himself, however, felt that the Falstaff of the opera is not a conventional Italian <i>buffo</i> character, but portrays Shakespeare's fuller, more ambiguous Falstaff of the <i>Henry IV</i> plays: "My Falstaff is not merely the hero of <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i>, who is simply a buffoon, and allows himself to be tricked by the women, but also the Falstaff of the two parts of <i>Henry IV</i>. Boito has written the libretto in accordance."<sup id="cite_ref-klein_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-klein-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A contemporary critic argued that the text "imitated with marvellous accuracy the metre and rhythm of Shakespeare's verse",<sup id="cite_ref-s111_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-s111-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Hepokoski notes Boito's use of traditional Italian metric conventions.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>n 11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another recurrent question is how much, if at all, Verdi was influenced by <a href="/wiki/Wagner" class="mw-redirect" title="Wagner">Wagner</a>'s comic opera <i><a href="/wiki/Die_Meistersinger" class="mw-redirect" title="Die Meistersinger">Die Meistersinger</a></i>. At the time of the premiere this was a sensitive subject; many Italians were suspicious of or hostile to Wagner's music, and were protective in a nationalistic way of Verdi's reputation.<sup id="cite_ref-h138_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h138-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, Verdi's new style was markedly different from that of his popular works of the 1850s and 1860s, and it seemed to some to have Wagnerian echoes.<sup id="cite_ref-h138_84-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h138-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999 the critic <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Porter_(music_critic)" title="Andrew Porter (music critic)">Andrew Porter</a> wrote, "That <i>Falstaff</i> was Verdi's and Boito's answer to Wagner's <i>Meistersinger</i> seems evident now. But the Italian <i>Falstaff</i> moves more quickly."<sup id="cite_ref-hso_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hso-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Toscanini, who did more than anyone else to bring <i>Falstaff</i> into the regular operatic repertoire, commented: </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712" /><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>the difference between <i>Falstaff</i>, which is the absolute masterpiece, and <i>Die Meistersinger</i>, which is an outstanding Wagnerian opera. Just think for a moment how many musical means – beautiful ones, certainly – Wagner must make use of to describe the Nuremberg night. And look how Verdi gets a similarly startling effect at a similar moment <i>with three notes.</i><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>Verdi scholars including <a href="/wiki/Julian_Budden" title="Julian Budden">Julian Budden</a> have analysed the music in symphonic terms – the opening section "a perfect little <a href="/wiki/Sonata_form" title="Sonata form">sonata</a> movement", the second act concluding with a variant of the classic slow <a href="/wiki/Concertante" class="mw-redirect" title="Concertante">concertante</a> ensemble leading to a fast <a href="/wiki/Stretto" title="Stretto">stretto</a>, and the whole opera ending with "the most academic of musical forms", a fugue.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Milnes suggests that this shows "a wise old conservative's warning about the excesses of the <i><a href="/wiki/Verismo" title="Verismo">verismo</a></i> school of Italian opera" already on the rise by the 1890s.<sup id="cite_ref-m8_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m8-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Among the solo numbers woven into the continuous score are Falstaff's "honour" monologue, which concludes the first scene, and his reminiscent <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/arietta" class="extiw" title="wikt:arietta">arietta</a> ("Quand'ero paggio") about himself as a young page.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The young lovers, Nannetta and Fenton, are given a lyrical and playful duet ("Labbra di foco") in act 1;<sup id="cite_ref-m8_87-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m8-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in act 3, Fenton's impassioned love song, "Dal labbro il canto estasiato vola" briefly becomes a duet when Nannetta joins him.<sup id="cite_ref-m8_87-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m8-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She then has the last substantial solo section of the score, the "fairy" aria, "Sul fil d'un soffio etesio", described by Parker as "yet another aria suffused with the soft orchestral colours that characterize this scene".<sup id="cite_ref-parker_31-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parker-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The score is seen by the critic Richard Osborne as rich in self-parody, with sinister themes from <i><a href="/wiki/Rigoletto" title="Rigoletto">Rigoletto</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Un_ballo_in_maschera" title="Un ballo in maschera">Un ballo in maschera</a></i> transmuted into comedy. For Osborne the nocturnal music of act 3 draws on the examples of <a href="/wiki/Carl_Maria_von_Weber" title="Carl Maria von Weber">Weber</a>, <a href="/wiki/Berlioz" class="mw-redirect" title="Berlioz">Berlioz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mendelssohn" class="mw-redirect" title="Mendelssohn">Mendelssohn</a>, creating a mood akin to that of Shakespeare's <i><a href="/wiki/A_Midsummer_Night%27s_Dream" title="A Midsummer Night's Dream">A Midsummer Night's Dream</a></i>. Osborne views the whole opera as an ensemble piece, and he comments that grand soliloquy in the old Verdian style is reserved for Ford's "jealousy" aria in act 2, which is almost tragic in style but comic in effect, making Ford "a figure to be laughed at."<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Osborne concludes his analysis, "<i>Falstaff</i> is comedy's musical apogee: the finest opera, inspired by the finest dramatist, by the finest opera composer the world has known".<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recordings">Recordings</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Recordings"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Falstaff_discography" title="Falstaff discography"><i>Falstaff</i> discography</a></div> <p>There are two early recordings of Falstaff's short arietta "Quand'ero paggio". Pini Corsi, the original Ford, recorded it in 1904, and Maurel followed in 1907.<sup id="cite_ref-disco_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-disco-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first recording of the complete opera was made by Italian Columbia in March and April 1932. It was conducted by <a href="/wiki/Lorenzo_Molajoli" title="Lorenzo Molajoli">Lorenzo Molajoli</a> with the chorus and orchestra of <a href="/wiki/La_Scala" title="La Scala">La Scala</a>, and a cast including <a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Rimini" title="Giacomo Rimini">Giacomo Rimini</a> as Falstaff and <a href="/wiki/Pia_Tassinari" title="Pia Tassinari">Pia Tassinari</a> as Alice.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some live stage performances were recorded in the 1930s, but the next studio recording was that conducted by <a href="/wiki/Arturo_Toscanini" title="Arturo Toscanini">Arturo Toscanini</a> for the 1950 <a href="/wiki/NBC" title="NBC">NBC</a> radio broadcast released on disc by <a href="/wiki/RCA_Red_Seal" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Red Seal">RCA Victor</a>. The first <a href="/wiki/Stereophonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Stereophonic">stereophonic</a> recording was conducted by <a href="/wiki/Herbert_von_Karajan" title="Herbert von Karajan">Herbert von Karajan</a> for <a href="/wiki/EMI_Classics" title="EMI Classics">EMI</a> in 1956.<sup id="cite_ref-disco_91-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-disco-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the singers whose performances of the title role are on live or studio recordings, Italians include <a href="/wiki/Renato_Bruson" title="Renato Bruson">Renato Bruson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tito_Gobbi" title="Tito Gobbi">Tito Gobbi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rolando_Panerai" title="Rolando Panerai">Rolando Panerai</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruggero_Raimondi" title="Ruggero Raimondi">Ruggero Raimondi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mariano_Stabile" title="Mariano Stabile">Mariano Stabile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Taddei" title="Giuseppe Taddei">Giuseppe Taddei</a> and <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Valdengo" title="Giuseppe Valdengo">Giuseppe Valdengo</a>; Francophone singers include <a href="/wiki/Gabriel_Bacquier" title="Gabriel Bacquier">Gabriel Bacquier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jean-Philippe_Lafont" title="Jean-Philippe Lafont">Jean-Philippe Lafont</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_van_Dam" title="José van Dam">José van Dam</a>; Germans include <a href="/wiki/Walter_Berry_(bass-baritone)" title="Walter Berry (bass-baritone)">Walter Berry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dietrich_Fischer-Dieskau" title="Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau">Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau</a> and <a href="/wiki/Hans_Hotter" title="Hans Hotter">Hans Hotter</a>; and UK and US singers include <a href="/wiki/Geraint_Evans" title="Geraint Evans">Geraint Evans</a>, <a href="/wiki/Donald_Gramm" title="Donald Gramm">Donald Gramm</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bryn_Terfel" title="Bryn Terfel">Bryn Terfel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leonard_Warren" title="Leonard Warren">Leonard Warren</a> and <a href="/wiki/Willard_White" title="Willard White">Willard White</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-operadis_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-operadis-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes,_references_and_sources"><span id="Notes.2C_references_and_sources"></span>Notes, references and sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Notes, references and sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><b>Notes</b> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 40em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Authorities differ on the date of Maurel's offering. Algernon St John-Brenon in <i>The Musical Quarterly</i> in 1916 put the date at 1886, before the premiere of <i>Otello</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karen Henson in <i>19th-Century Music</i> in 2007 quotes letters from 1890 that show Maurel's offer of the French libretto as dating from that year, while it was still a secret that Verdi was working on <i>Falstaff</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boito eliminated the characters Master George Page, William Page, Justice Shallow, Slender, Sir Hugh Evans, Nym, Peter Simple and John Rugby. He turned Fenton into a conventional juvenile lead, rather than Shakespeare's less romantic and more mercenary character. Mistress Quickly became simply a neighbour of the Fords and Pages, rather than Caius's servant.<sup id="cite_ref-hso_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hso-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subplots involving these characters were cut, including Caius's discovery of Simple in his closet (I.iv), his duel with Evans (III.i), William's Latin lesson (IV.i), and the theft of a German duke's horses (IV.v).<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">There is a tradition that Shakespeare wrote <i>The Merry Wives of Windsor</i> at the command of <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_I_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Elizabeth I of England">Elizabeth I</a>, who expressed a wish to see "Sir John in Love".<sup id="cite_ref-rowse_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rowse-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The character was familiar to Elizabethan audiences from both parts of <i>Henry IV</i> and there was disappointment when Shakespeare omitted him from <i><a href="/wiki/Henry_V_(play)" title="Henry V (play)">Henry V</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-rowse_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rowse-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Merry Wives</i> was written in haste, and most critics in the 18th century and afterwards found the character of Falstaff crudely drawn by comparison with the more ambiguous figure in the two earlier plays. In 1744 <a href="/wiki/Corbyn_Morris" title="Corbyn Morris">Corbyn Morris</a> wrote that in <i>The Merry Wives</i>, Falstaff is "in general greatly below his true character".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In later studies of the character by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Morgann" title="Maurice Morgann">Maurice Morgann</a> (1777) and William Richardson (1789) the Falstaff of <i>The Merry Wives</i> is almost completely ignored.<sup id="cite_ref-m89_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m89-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Boito's time many critics continued to share the views of Morris and his successors; <a href="/wiki/John_Dover_Wilson" class="mw-redirect" title="John Dover Wilson">John Dover Wilson</a> (1953) was dismissive,<sup id="cite_ref-m89_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-m89-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/W._H._Auden" title="W. H. Auden">W H Auden</a> called <i>The Merry Wives</i> "Shakespeare's worst play".<sup id="cite_ref-rowse_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rowse-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/A._L._Rowse" title="A. L. Rowse">A L Rowse</a> (1978) took a more favourable view: "It is the same old reprobate, with the same virtuosity of language in recounting his misadventures as that with which he had regaled Prince Hal."<sup id="cite_ref-rowse_12-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rowse-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The house, near <a href="/wiki/Busseto" title="Busseto">Busseto</a>, remains in the possession of the Verdi family. The composer's rooms are preserved intact and are open to the public. Verdi's volumes of Shakespeare remain by his bedside.<sup id="cite_ref-gallo_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gallo-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Some editions of Shakespeare give the name as "Brainford".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-37"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-37">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Maurel's compliance stopped short of playing the title role in the original company's tour when it played in Germany. As a Frenchman, with the German victory in the Franco-Prussian War still an offence to French national pride, he refused to perform in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-42"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-42">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Reserved seats on the <i>platea</i> (main floor) were raised from 5 lire to 150 lire, with similar increases in other parts of the house.<sup id="cite_ref-h55_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h55-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although most of the music is <a href="/wiki/Through-composed" class="mw-redirect" title="Through-composed">through-composed</a>, with no obvious breaks where an encore could be taken, Verdi had agreed in advance that the women's quartet "Quell'otre! quel tino!" and Falstaff's brief song "Quand'ero paggio" could be encored. Hepokoski speculates that the conductor may have slowed and then briefly stopped the music to allow the audience to applaud.<sup id="cite_ref-h126_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h126-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At later performances Verdi allowed other sections of the score to be encored, including Nannetta's "Sul fil d'un soffio etesio".<sup id="cite_ref-h126_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-h126-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> Among leading conductors of later generations who have been associated with <i>Falstaff</i> are <a href="/wiki/Claudio_Abbado" title="Claudio Abbado">Claudio Abbado</a> and <a href="/wiki/Colin_Davis" title="Colin Davis">Sir Colin Davis</a>, both of whom recorded the work twice.<sup id="cite_ref-operadis_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-operadis-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-77"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-77">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Although the term translates literally into English as "lyric comedy", <a href="/wiki/Ruggero_Leoncavallo" title="Ruggero Leoncavallo">Leoncavallo</a> used it for his version of <i><a href="/wiki/La_boh%C3%A8me_(Leoncavallo)" title="La bohème (Leoncavallo)">La bohème</a></i> (1897), which ends tragically, and <a href="/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini" title="Giacomo Puccini">Puccini</a> used the term for his bittersweet <i><a href="/wiki/La_rondine" title="La rondine">La rondine</a></i> (1917).<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-83"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-83">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Thus, the young lovers generally sing to one another in <i>quinari</i> (five-syllable lines), the merry wives do their plotting in <i>senari</i> (six-syllable lines) and Ford and his cohorts are given <i>ottonari</i> (eight-syllable lines).<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> </ol></div> <p><b>References</b> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626" /><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 25em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Budden, Vol. 1, pp. 69–74</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-klein-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-klein_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-klein_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-klein_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-klein_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-klein_2-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Klein, John W. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/911833">"Verdi and <i>Falstaff</i>"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Musical_Times" title="The Musical Times">The Musical Times</a></i>, 1 July 1926, pp. 605–607 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Baldini, p. 220</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">St John-Brenon, Algernon. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/738179">"Giuseppe Verdi"</a>, <i>The Musical Quarterly</i>, January 1916, pp. 130–162</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Henson, Karen. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/ncm.2007.31.2.113">"Verdi versus Victor Maurel on Falstaff"</a>, <i>19th-Century Music</i>, November 2007, pp. 113–130 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Melchiori, pp. 90–91</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Rice, John A. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O901546">"Falstaff (i)"</a>, and Brown, Clive. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O009159">"Lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Die"</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Grove_Dictionary_of_Opera" title="The New Grove Dictionary of Opera">The New Grove Dictionary of Opera</a></i>, Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 2 March 2014 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-hso-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-hso_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hso_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hso_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-hso_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Porter, Andrew. "Roll Up! Here We Come Again!", programme booklet, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 6 December 1999, pp. 10–14</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, p. 26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-rowse-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-rowse_12-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rowse_12-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rowse_12-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-rowse_12-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Rowse, p. 444</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Vickers, p. 122</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-m89-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-m89_14-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-m89_14-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Melchiori, p. 89</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-PM700-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-PM700_16-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PM700_16-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-PM700_16-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to Boito, 6 and 7 July 1889, in Phillips-Matz 1993, p. 700. (punctuation used here are as in the book)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-gallo-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-gallo_17-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-gallo_17-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Gallo, Denise (2010). "Repatriating 'Falstaff': Boito, Verdi and Shakespeare (in Translation)", <i>Nineteenth-Century Music Review</i>, November 2010, pp. 7–34</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Steen, p. 453</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to Boito, 10 July 1889, in Phillips-Matz, pp. 700–701</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, p. 22</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to Boito, 18 August 1889, in Phillips-Matz, p. 702</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shakespeare and Alexander, act IV, scene ii</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-25"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-25">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Wechsberg, p. 229</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-s111-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-s111_26-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-s111_26-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Streatfeild, p. 111</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-27"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-27">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boito to Verdi, 30 October 1889, in Phillips-Matz, p. 703</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, pp. 22–26</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-29">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Boito to Verdi, in McDonald 2009, p. 8</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-30"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-30">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, p. 35</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-parker-31"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-parker_31-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-parker_31-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-parker_31-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-parker_31-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-parker_31-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Parker, Roger. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/O901547">"Falstaff (ii)"</a>, <i>The New Grove Dictionary of Opera</i>, Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press. Retrieved 17 May 2015 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to Maria Waldmann, 6 December 1890, in Philips-Matz, p. 707: Waldmann was a young singer with whom Verdi corresponded</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to Boito, 12 June 1891, in Philips-Matz, p. 709</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, p. 36</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to <a href="/wiki/Teresa_Stolz" title="Teresa Stolz">Teresa Stolz</a>, 9 September 1892, in Phillips-Matz, p. 712</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Verdi's <i>Falstaff</i> at Berlin", <i>The Times</i>, 2 June 1893, p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-38">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Verdi to Ricordi, 18 September 1892, in Phillips-Matz, pp. 714–715</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Verdi's <i>Falstaff</i>, <i>The Times</i>, 8 December 1892, p. 5</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Phillips-Matz, p. 715</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-h55-41"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-h55_41-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-h55_41-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-h55_41-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-h55_41-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, pp. 55–56</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-h126-43"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-h126_43-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-h126_43-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, pp. 126–127</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-45"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-45">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, p. 56</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-46"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-46">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Phillips-Matz, pp. 717–720</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-h83-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-h83_47-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-h83_47-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a 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Retrieved 21 July 2013</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hepokoski, pp. 136–137</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-66"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-66">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Higgins, John. "Autumnal mastery of Verdi's emotional range", <i>The Times</i>, 16 April 1982, p. 9</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-67"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-67">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Milnes, Rodney. 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Retrieved 2 March 2014 <span style="font-size:0.95em; font-size:95%; color: var( --color-subtle, #555 )">(subscription required)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-McD-78"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-McD_78-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McD_78-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McD_78-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-McD_78-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">McDonald 2009, p. 7</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-79"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-79">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Grogan, p. 169</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-80"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-80">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Osborne, p. 406</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ph-81"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ph_81-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Heyworth, Peter. 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London: Routledge. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-134-78355-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-134-78355-7"><bdi>978-1-134-78355-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=William+Shakespeare%3A+The+Critical+Heritage%2C+Volume+3%3A+1733%E2%80%931752&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2002&rft.isbn=978-1-134-78355-7&rft.aulast=Vickers&rft.aufirst=Brian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DD0qEAgAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA122&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFalstaff+%28opera%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWechsberg1974" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Wechsberg" title="Joseph Wechsberg">Wechsberg, Joseph</a> (1974). <i>Verdi</i>. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-297-76818-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-297-76818-0"><bdi>978-0-297-76818-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Verdi&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Weidenfeld+and+Nicolson&rft.date=1974&rft.isbn=978-0-297-76818-0&rft.aulast=Wechsberg&rft.aufirst=Joseph&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFalstaff+%28opera%29" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Falstaff_(opera)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Osborne_(music_writer)" title="Charles Osborne (music writer)">Osborne, Charles</a> (1969). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/completeoperasof0000osbo_c8s8"><i>The Complete Operas of Verdi</i></a></span>. New York: Da Capo Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-306-80072-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-306-80072-1"><bdi>0-306-80072-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Operas+of+Verdi&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Da+Capo+Press&rft.date=1969&rft.isbn=0-306-80072-1&rft.aulast=Osborne&rft.aufirst=Charles&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcompleteoperasof0000osbo_c8s8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFalstaff+%28opera%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Toye" title="Francis Toye">Toye, Francis</a> (1931). <i>Giuseppe Verdi: His Life and Works</i>. London: Heinemann. <a href="/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/462427571">462427571</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Giuseppe+Verdi%3A+His+Life+and+Works&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Heinemann&rft.date=1931&rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F462427571&rft.aulast=Toye&rft.aufirst=Francis&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFalstaff+%28opera%29" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Franz_Werfel" title="Franz Werfel">Werfel, Franz</a>; <a href="/wiki/Paul_Stefan" title="Paul Stefan">Paul Stefan</a> (1973). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/verdimaninhislet1942verd"><i>Verdi: The Man and His Letters</i></a></span>. 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<ul><li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Oberto_(opera)" title="Oberto (opera)">Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio</a></i> (1839)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Un_giorno_di_regno" title="Un giorno di regno">Un giorno di regno</a></i> (1840)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Nabucco" title="Nabucco">Nabucco</a></i> (1842)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_Lombardi_alla_prima_crociata" title="I Lombardi alla prima crociata">I Lombardi alla prima crociata</a></i> (1843)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Ernani" title="Ernani">Ernani</a></i> (1844)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_due_Foscari" title="I due Foscari">I due Foscari</a></i> (1844)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Giovanna_d%27Arco" title="Giovanna d'Arco">Giovanna d'Arco</a></i> (1845)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Alzira_(opera)" title="Alzira (opera)">Alzira</a></i> (1845)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Attila_(opera)" title="Attila (opera)">Attila</a></i> (1846)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Macbeth_(Verdi)" title="Macbeth (Verdi)">Macbeth</a></i> (1847/65) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_masnadieri" title="I masnadieri">I masnadieri</a></i> (1847)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/J%C3%A9rusalem" title="Jérusalem">Jérusalem</a></i> (1847)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Il_corsaro" title="Il corsaro">Il corsaro</a></i> (1848)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/La_battaglia_di_Legnano" title="La battaglia di Legnano">La battaglia di Legnano</a></i> (1849)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Luisa_Miller" title="Luisa Miller">Luisa Miller</a></i> (1849)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Stiffelio" title="Stiffelio">Stiffelio</a></i> (1850)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Rigoletto" title="Rigoletto">Rigoletto</a></i> (1851) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Il_trovatore" title="Il trovatore">Il trovatore</a></i> (1853) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/La_traviata" title="La traviata">La traviata</a></i> (1853) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Les_v%C3%AApres_siciliennes" title="Les vêpres siciliennes">Les vêpres siciliennes</a></i> (June 1855)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/I_vespri_siciliani" title="I vespri siciliani">I vespri siciliani</a></i> (December 1855)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Simon_Boccanegra" title="Simon Boccanegra">Simon Boccanegra</a></i> (1857/81)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Aroldo" title="Aroldo">Aroldo</a></i> (1857)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Un_ballo_in_maschera" title="Un ballo in maschera">Un ballo in maschera</a></i> (1859) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/La_forza_del_destino" title="La forza del destino">La forza del destino</a></i> (1862/69) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Don_Carlos" title="Don Carlos">Don Carlos</a></i> (1867/84) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Aida" title="Aida">Aida</a></i> (1871) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Otello" title="Otello">Otello</a></i> (1887) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Falstaff</a></i> (1893)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Opera excerpts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Anvil_Chorus" title="Anvil Chorus">Anvil Chorus</a>"</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">"<a href="/wiki/Bella_figlia_dell%27amore" 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aida_discography" title="Aida discography"><i>Aida</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Don_Carlos_discography" title="Don Carlos discography"><i>Don Carlos</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Falstaff_discography" title="Falstaff discography"><i>Falstaff</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/La_forza_del_destino_discography" title="La forza del destino discography"><i>La forza del destino</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Macbeth_discography" title="Macbeth discography"><i>Macbeth</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Otello_discography" title="Otello discography"><i>Otello</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Rigoletto_discography" title="Rigoletto discography"><i>Rigoletto</i></a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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Quartet in E minor</a> (1873)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Requiem_(Verdi)" title="Requiem (Verdi)">Messa da Requiem</a> (1874) <span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/Verdi_Requiem_discography" title="Verdi Requiem discography"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/CD_icon.svg/10px-CD_icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/CD_icon.svg/15px-CD_icon.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/CD_icon.svg/20px-CD_icon.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192" /></a></span></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i><a href="/wiki/Quattro_pezzi_sacri" title="Quattro pezzi sacri">Quattro pezzi sacri</a></i> (1889–1897)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Recognitions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Memorials_to_Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Memorials to Giuseppe Verdi">Memorials to Giuseppe Verdi</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Theatres named after Verdi (<a href="/wiki/Teatro_Verdi_(Brindisi)" title="Teatro Verdi (Brindisi)">Brindisi</a> - <a href="/wiki/Teatro_Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Teatro Giuseppe Verdi">Busseto</a> - <a href="/wiki/Teatro_Verdi_(Florence)" title="Teatro Verdi (Florence)">Florence</a> - <a href="/wiki/Teatro_Lirico_Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi">Trieste</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Milan_Conservatory" title="Milan Conservatory">Milan Conservatory</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi_Monument" title="Giuseppe Verdi Monument">Giuseppe Verdi Monument</a></span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Orchestra_Sinfonica_di_Milano_Giuseppe_Verdi" title="Orchestra Sinfonica 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