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Falstaff at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Dates: (11/17/2013 - 1/4/2014 )

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Deutsche Oper Berlin


Bismarckstr. 35
Berlin,Berlin 10627

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Tickets: €29.00 - €162.00

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Just as Shakespeare's comedies never get bogged down in tattiness but always explore the sadness and loneliness behind the mask of tomfoolery, so too is Verdi's late work, FALSTAFF, much more than a light-hearted run-around. Basing his FALSTAFF on the Bard's “Merry Wives of Windsor” and “Henry IV”, Verdi created one of the quirkiest scores of the 19th century, one that takes the theatre itself as the central theme of the piece.

Society repeatedly equates a Falstaff encounter with an open season for lies and masquerades. The story presents us with a pretend rendezvous, a husband disguised as a spy and a collective ghost staged in a park at night. Falstaff is the individualistic outsider stirring up the comfortable status quo with his otherness and inducing the bourgeoisie to act, to produce theatre, to be anarchical.

Verdi penned FALSTAFF around the time that he was setting up his “Casa Verdi” home for retired musicians in Milan. The opera is at once a testimony to the youthfulness and experience of a composer shortly before his 80th birthday. The work deals with the ageing process and touches on issues such as loneliness and depression. Ever present, however, is the spirit of the closing fugue: “Tutto nel mondo è burla. / Everything in the world is but a joke.”

In the wake of Janácek's JENUFA in 2012, director Christof Loy and General Music Director Donald Runnicles have now chosen FALSTAFF as the work with which to continue their successful collaboration at the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

Cast and Creative team for Falstaff at Deutsche Oper Berlin

Conductor Donald Runnicles
Director Christof Loy
Stage-design Johannes Leiacker
Costume-design Ursula Renzenbrink
Light-design Bernd Purkrabek
Choir Conductor William Spaulding
Choreographer Thomas Wilhelm
Dramaturge Dorothea Hartmann
Sir John Falstaff Markus Brück
Ford Michael Nagy
Fenton Joel Prieto
Cajus Thomas Blondelle
Bardolfo Gideon Poppe
Pistola Marko Mimica
Alice Ford Barbara Haveman
Nannetta Elena Tsallagova
Mrs Quickly Dana Beth Miller
Meg Page Jana Kurucová
Innkeeper N. N.
Chorus Master Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchestra Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
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