Opera Explained: Verdi - Falstaff (Smillie) - CD

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An Introduction to... VERDI Falstaff (1893)

 

1. Introduction

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2. Falstaff's qualities

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3. Verdi and Shakespeare

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4. Shakespeare's Falstaff and Verdi's librettist

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5. Opening: The Garter Inn

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6. Falstaff's plan begins

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7. Act I, Scene 2: The Ford's garden

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8. Enter Ford, Bardolph, Pistol, Dr Caius and Fenton

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9. Act II, Scene 1: Mistress Quickly visits Falstaff

00:06:32

 

10. Enter Signor Fontana

00:08:04

 

11. Act II, Scene 2: Inside the Ford's house

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12. Act III, Scene 1: Falstaff back at the Garter Inn, soaked

00:06:39

 

13. Act III, Scene 2: Windsor Great Park

00:04:48

 

14. Enter the townspeople, disguised

00:05:16

 

15. Final pages of the opera

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