![Falstaff Poster](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500//e8rGZ1QMx1FP2Ob1on5ydhQi0tS.jpg)
Falstaff
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January 1, 1993
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Music
It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.
Featured Crew
Arrigo Boito
Writer
Franco Zeffirelli
Director
Paul Mills
Stage Director
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Cast
![Mirella Freni](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//gJZMLaFza1HUh5onrOu1TI0S0Mx.jpg)
Mirella Freni
Alice Ford
![Barbara Bonney](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//aO45ClAPTCz0GdQ6b4YFElxMq45.jpg)
Barbara Bonney
Nannetta
![Paul Plishka](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//1yIdDZxXR1pyDFGicAP79b47ebR.jpg)
Paul Plishka
Sir John Falstaff
Bruno Pola
Ford
![Marilyn Horne](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w300//fgWVxsIFhASxiVLJ4gCsl8OhxsK.jpg)
Marilyn Horne
Mistress Quickly