When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only his second comic opera ever, it presents a homecoming of sorts. "What's ...

The irrepressible Sir John Falstaff has been variously described as a braggart and swaggart, the prince of rascals and by Giuseppe Verdi himself, “an amusing rogue.” No wonder the wealthy and ...

Chicago Opera Theater will present the Chicago premiere of Antonio Salieri’s Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle December 3–7, 2025, ...

A scene from Opera Colorado's 2018 production of "Falstaff" at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House in Denver. “Falstaff” holds a special place in the career of legendary opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. It ...

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 ...

Hera Hysesang Park as Nannetta, Ailyn Pérez as Alice, Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Robert Carsen’s ...

Giuseppe Verdi was just 26, a fledgling composer and newly widowed when he wrote his first comic opera, “Un Giorno di Regno” (“A One-Day Reign”). But the two-act comedy bombed and closed after one ...

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As bass baritone Craig Colclough tells it, being an opera singer seems like a lot of fun. Especially when you're playing "Falstaff." Colclough takes on the title role in Opera Saratoga's production of ...

Los Angeles finally has its first new “Falstaff” in decades. We’re not alone. Verdi’s last opera, for some of us the finest comic opera and finest Shakespearean opera of all, a marvel of transcendent ...

Like its title character, the Metropolitan Opera’s old production of Verdi’s Falstaff was a tattered relic­. Leonard Bernstein conducted the opening of Franco Zeffirelli’s staging in 1964, which ...