Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of ...

Comedy, it has been said, is harder to do than drama — which only underlines the achievement Friday night of the Aspen Music Festival’s one-night-only production of Verdi’s opera Falstaff. It was a ...

Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also making room for a Puccini tragedy. By Rebecca Schmid For Ambrogio Maestri, a ...

Falstaff-- There are four extant operas based on Shakespeare’s "The Merry Wives of Windsor." The most noted is Verdi’s "Falstaff" (1892) with a superior libretto by Arrigo Boito. Next in popularity ...

We'll continue our celebration of Shakespeare's birthday this evening with music by his contemporary John Dowland and Elgar's symphonic portrait of Sir John Falstaff. Tune in at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107 ...

Verdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff, in its first new Metropolitan Opera production in 50 years — and conducted by Met Music Director James Levine in his first Great Performances at the Met ...

Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...

Not a Fat Tuesday, but a Fat Weekend. On Saturday morning the Metropolitan Opera simulcast of Verdi’s last opera, Falstaff. On Sunday night a home viewing of The Whale. Both are all about fatness. The ...