Falstaff

The Opera Explained Series - Book 0

Falstaff

By Thomson Smillie
Unabridged
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Verdi’s Falstaff repays careful study with true pleasure. It is opera’s happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career—distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces—with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed by master-librettist Boito to give the eighty-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime. Falstaff is the last great Italian comic opera and a worthy end to the tradition.