Full Casting Announced for LA Opera's FALSTAFF - Roberto Frontali, Carmen Giannattasio & More!

By: Oct. 11, 2013
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Today, on the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi, Plácido Domingo announces the full casting and production details for LA Opera's upcoming production of Falstaff, Verdi's final opera based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. "All year long, opera houses around the world have been celebrating the bicentenary of Giuseppe Verdi, the greatest of all Italian composers," said Mr. Domingo, LA Opera's General Director. "In just a few weeks, we will unveil a new staging of Verdi's comic masterpiece, the crowning glory of his extraordinary career."

James Conlon, LA Opera's Music Director, will conduct all six Los Angeles performances from November 9 through December 1, as well as a special concert performance on November 26 at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County. The cast is led by three acclaimed Italian singers: baritone Roberto Frontali as Falstaff, soprano Carmen Giannattasio as Alice Ford and Marco Caria as Ford. Mr. Frontali made his LA Opera debut in 2004 in another Verdi work, as Count di Luna in Il Trovatore, while Ms. Giannattasio's company debut was as Desdemona in a 2003 gala performance of the fourth act of Verdi's Otello. Mr. Caria will make his LA Opera debut in this production.

The cast also includes Russian soprano Ekaterina Sadovnikova and Argentinian tenor Juan Francisco Gatellin their LA Opera debuts as the young lovers Nannetta and Fenton. Returning artists include mezzo-sopranosRonnita Nicole Miller and Erica Brookhyser, alumnae of LA Opera's young artist program, as Mistress Quickly and as Meg Page; tenor Robert Brubaker as Dr. Caius; Filipino tenor Rodell Rosel as Bardolph; and Russian bass Valentin Anikin, a current member of LA Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program, as Pistol.

Production Team
Falstaff is a new production directed by Lee Blakeley, with scenery and costumes designed by Adrian Linford; both are making their LA Opera debuts. Rick Fisher is the lighting designer and Nicola Bowie is the choreographer. Grant Gershon, LA Opera's Resident Conductor, is the chorus master.

Performance Dates and Locations
Falstaff will open on Saturday, November 9, at 7:30pm, with subsequent evening performances at 7:30pm on November 13, 16 and 21, and matinee performances at 2pm on November 24 and December 1. These performances will take place at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012. There will also be a concert performance of Falstaff with Mr. Conlon leading the same cast, as well the LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus, at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Orange County, onNovember 26 at 7:30pm. For information on this performance, please click here.

Tickets
Tickets to Falstaff start at $18 and can be purchased in person at the LA Opera Box Office at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, by phone at 213.972.8001 or online at www.LAOpera.com. For disability access, call 213.972.0777 or email laopera@laopera.com.



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