Arnold Ostmann, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (2000)
Arnold Östmann, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (2000)
PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 120 min | 6.18 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Arthaus Musik | Sub: German, English, French, Dutch
PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | 120 min | 6.18 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Arthaus Musik | Sub: German, English, French, Dutch
Antonio Salieri set Shakespeare’s comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor to music in 1799, and his work was successfully premiered in Vienna the same year. Michael Hampe staged Salieris’s Falstaff at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival in 1995 with similar success – wonderfully supported by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Arnold Östman. The libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi reduces Shakespeare’s original play to a few main characters and drastically simplifies the plot. This gives John Del Carlo, Teresa Ringholz, Richard Croft and Delores Ziegler a lot of space for their artistic interpretation and brilliant singing. The work lives from the wealth of the Italian opera buffa and absorbed influences from the German Singspiel (song-play), and delights with a number of great arias.
Performer:
Sir John Falstaff – John del Carlo
Mrs. Alice Ford – Teresa Ringholz
Mr. Ford – Richard Croft
Mrs. Slender – Delores Ziegler
Mr. Slender – Jake Gardner
Bardolfo – Carlos Feller
Betty – Darla Brooks
Ludwigshafen Theatre Chorus
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductor – Arnold Östmann
Stage Director – Michael Hampe
Arnold Ostmann, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (2000)
Arnold Ostmann, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (2000)
Arnold Ostmann, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (2000)
Arnold Ostmann, Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart - Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (2000)
