Daniele Gatti, currently Music Director of the Orchestre National de France and Zurich Opera conducted Verdi’s Falstaff at the Royal Opera House in May 2012 with Ambrogio Maestri in the leading rôle.

The production featured a great cast, including Ambrogio Maestri as one of the finest Falstaffs of our time - the Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings his character a hilarious buffo quality - and Barbara Fritolli as Alice Ford.

Genuinely warm italianita 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.”

“Ambrogio Maestri is grandiose. [...] The singers are all quite good actors, some even excellent, and Bechtolf brings out the full extent of their talent” - Tagesanzeiger

Staged by: Sven-Eric Bechtolf

Running Time: 126 minutes
Picture: 16:9, HD
Sound: DTS-HD MA 5.0, PCM Stereo
Subtitles: Italian (original language), English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese, Korean
Booklet : English, German, French