Falstaff
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 09

This Fall, Opus Arte and DigiScreen offer cinema opera fans their first exciting chance to see the highlight productions from the world renowned Glyndebourne Festival Opera. On Saturday, November 14th, Glyndebourne’s acclaimed production of FALSTAFF lights up the screen when Verdi’s delightful portrait of one of Shakespeare’s best loved characters presents at select Landmark Cinemas locations and other select theatres in Canada. Distributed worldwide by DigiScreen, the highly acclaimed production appears on select Canadian screens as part of an ongoing cinema series from the world’s great stages presented by The Royal Opera House’s Opus Arte.

Verdi’s astounding score takes on new life in Richard’s Jones’s darkly funny production of the much-loved masterpiece Falstaff. Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff is a mercurial, nimble-footed and profusely tuneful portrait of Shakespeare’s Fat Knight. The libretto combines three parts Merry Wives of Windsor to two parts Henry IV, with a sprinkling of fairy dust from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. A witty farce, the opera follows Falstaff’s attempted seduction of two local ladies who then exact their wily revenge on him. In Jones’s hands, Shakespeare’s Windsor becomes a delightful half-timbered England complete with busty barmaids, Brownies and Eton schoolboys boating on the Thames.

A strongly international cast is led by the exciting British baritone Christopher Purves in the larger-than-life role of the corpulent Falstaff, whose profligate presence both outrages and inspires the leaner, meaner citizens of Windsor. His Falstaff is an unforgettable, brilliantly original creation and the triumphant production is vintage Glyndebourne.

“Verdi’s score explodes with comic invention! Exceptional singing!” - Daily Express

“Quite simply wonderful!” - Musicalcriticism

FALSTAFF was captured before a live audience at Glyndebourne Festival Opera in June 2009. Since the 1930’s, the popular annual opera festival has flourished, residing in the grand English country house Glyndebourne near Lewes, in East Sussex.

For a preview of this film please visit DigiScreen Website

Children (Under 12) $10.00 | Seniors/Students $20.00 | Adults $22.50
Purchase 3 Show Pack: Seniors/Students $50.00 | Adults $60.00

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