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Falstaff - In a new version by Tony Britten - Based on the opera by Verdi and Boito

 
Falstaff - In a new version by Tony Britten - Based on the opera by Verdi and Boito-Viola and Piano-Opera Collection
ID: SIGDVD001 (EAN: 635212000199)  | 1 DVD | DDD - 24 b
Released in: 2008
LABEL:
Signum Records
Collection:
Opera Collection
Composers:
VERDI, Giuseppe
Interprets:
Concertus Novo (mezzo-soprano) | DANCEANU, Rodica (soprano) | Florilegium String Quartet (tenor) | Game Percussion Ensemble (tenor) | MATEI, Alexandro (baritone) | NOVAC, Serban (tenor) | RODILLA, Jose Miguel (bass) | TEROL, Eduardo (contralto) | Trio Equinoxe (soprano) | VARTOLOMEI, Anca (baritone)
Conductors:
AFANASIEV, Viktor
Other info:

Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
Color mode: Colour.Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Qualiton Imports LTD.
Screen Format: 16.9
DVD Format: DVD 9
Duration: 118 mins
Subtitles: none
Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo

John Falstaff - Ian Jervis, baritone
Alice Ford - Jan Hartley, soprano
Francis Ford QC - Julian Forsyth, baritone
Doctor Caius - Simon Butteriss, tenor
Bardolph - Daniel Gillingwater, tenor
Pistol - Simon Masterton Smith, bass
Mrs Quickly - Marilyn Cutts, contralto
Meg Page - Rosamund Shelley, mezzo-soprano
Nanetta Ford - Katie Lovell, soprano
Fenton - Andy Morton, tenor

Verdi’s timeless masterpiece brought up to date in a hilarious new English version, shot on and around a golf course.

At a golf club near Windsor, “Big John” Falstaff props up the bar at the nineteenth hole, (the member’s bar) which is where he is invariably to be found. He doesn’t actually play golf, because no-one wants to play with him - and anyway he’s probably too plump to make it beyond the first green. However he takes comfort in the fact that his bar bill is about to be settled, and all he has to do to achieve this extraordinary feat is to seduce the lovely Alice Ford, a task that he considers himself eminently qualified to undertake. As the big man blunders from one catastrophe to another and the plot races towards its uproarious conclusion, Tony Britten’s trademark wit and accessibility perfectly compliments Verdi’s glorious comedy.

Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV.
Program
 
SCENE LIST 
VERDI, Giuseppe (1813-1901) 
Falstaff 
SCENE LIST 
1. 1. Act 1, Scene 1 - The member's bar 
2. The Member's Bar7:50 
3. 2. Falstaff's plan 
4. Falstaff's Plan7:36 
5. 3. Act 1, Scene 2 - The ladies foursome 
6. The Ladies Foursome5:13 
7. 4. Sneaking to Francis Ford QC 
8. Sneaking to Francis Ford QC2:15 
9. 5. The young lovers 
10. The Young Lovers1:44 
11. 6. The ladies are plotting 
12. The Ladies are Plotting4:49 
13. 7. The octet 
14. The Nonet2:29 
15. 8. Act 2, Scene 1 - Mrs Quickly's proposition 
16. Mrs Quickly's Proposition7:03 
17. 9. Signor Fontana 
18. Signor Fontana15:50 
19. 10. Act 2, Scene 2 - Alice Ford's house 
20. Alice Ford's House6:18 
21. 11. The big seduction 
22. The Big Seduction3:41 
23. 12. Ford is home! 
24. Ford Is Home!5:13 
25. 13. Bathroom action 
26. Bathroom Action3:42 
27. 14. Act 3, Scene 1 - off to the dump 
28. Off to the Dump1:03 
29. 15. Falstaff the health hazard 
30. Falstaff the Health Hazard5:05 
31. 16. Mrs Quickly tries again 
32. Mrs Quickly Tries Again5:50 
33. 17. Alice and Ford counter-plotting 
34. Alice and Ford Counter- Plotting4:30 
35. 18. Act 3, Scene 2 - Herne's oak 
36. Herne's Oak4:37 
37. 19. Herne the horny hunter 
38. Herne the Horny Hunter3:59 
39. 20. Wood nymphs and fairies 
40. Would Nymphs and Fairies3:38 
41. 21. The revenge of the Mafia 
42. The Revenge of the Mafia4:51 
43. 22. The denouement 
44. The Denouncement5:16 
45. 23. The fugue 
46. The Fugue3:09 
47. 24. End titles 
48. End Titles1:11 
Behind the scenes documentary 

Review:
 

This radical restaging of Verdi's Falstaff updates the story so that it now takes place in and around a golf course. Falstaff is a fixture at the course's bar, even though he never plays the game. His larger-than-life sense of merriment makes him popular, but his drink tab has grown large enough to be a problem. He plans on seducing the wealthy Alice Ford in order to solve this situation. The cast includes Ian Jervis, Julian Forsyth, Daniel Gillingwater, and Simon Masterton.
˜ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide


 

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