The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

Music | Dec. 14, 2013

Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert Carsen’s hit staging of Verdi’s great human comedy. Ambrogio Maestri is an ideal Falstaff, leading an extraordinary ensemble cast of veteran and up-and-coming Met stars, including Angela Meade (Alice), Stephanie Blythe (Mistress Quickly), Franco Vasallo (Ford), and Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg). Lisette Oropesa and Paolo Fanale are the young lovers, Nannetta and Fenton.

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff

Music | Dec. 14, 2013

The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
Music Director James Levine conducts his first new Met production after a two-year absence: Robert Carsen’s hit staging of Verdi’s great human comedy. Ambrogio Maestri is an ideal Falstaff, leading an extraordinary ensemble cast of veteran and up-and-coming Met stars, including Angela Meade (Alice), Stephanie Blythe (Mistress Quickly), Franco Vasallo (Ford), and Jennifer Johnson Cano (Meg). Lisette Oropesa and Paolo Fanale are the young lovers, Nannetta and Fenton.
Producers The Metropolitan Opera
Original title The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff
Directors Robert Carsen, Gary Halvorson
Writers Arrigo Boito

Cast

Ambrogio Maestri

as Sir John Falstaff

Franco Vassallo

as Ford

Angela Meade

as Alice Ford

Lisette Oropesa

as Nannetta

Jennifer Johnson Cano

as Mistress Meg Page

Stephanie Blythe

as Mistress Quickly

Paolo Fanale

as Fenton

Carlo Bosi

as Dr Caius

Keith Jameson

as Bardolfo

Christian van Horn

as Pistola