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VERDI - FALSTAFF / Barbara Frittoli / Eva Liebau / Ambrogio Maestri / Massimo Cavalletti / Zürich Opera / Daniele Gatti / STAGED BY SVEN-ERIC BECHTOLF / UNITEL CLASSICA / major / DVD Video
UPC 814337011116
Playtime is 126 Minutes
"All the world's a joke," says Falstaff, and these words are truly given weight by Ambrogio Maestri, one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings to his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers, including Barbara Frittoli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianità in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdi's commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called "musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life".
Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House
DANIELE GATTI
Set Designer: Rolf Glittenberg
Costume Designer: Marianne Glittenberg
Lighting Designer: Jürgen Hoffmann
Chorus Master: Ernst Raffelsberger
Video Director: Felix Breisach
Staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf
- FILMED IN HIGH DEFINITION
- MASTERED FROM All HD SOURCE
- PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC 16:9
- SOUND FORMATS: PCM STEREO, DTS 5.0
- REGION CODE 0 (WORLDWIDE)
- TOTAL RUNNING TIME 126 MINS
- SUBTITLES: ITALIAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, KOREAN
