André Flédérick

Paris Opera, October 1996. New production Jérôme Savary

Mr. Bennett is a model citizen, a tender father and an irreproachable husband, he yearns for a quiet life. On a weekend he receives a visit from a strange man called Pédro Juarez. Mr. Bennett’s past suddenly resurfaces and his peaceful existence is turned upside down ...

Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito.

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s scoring and for certain rhythmic effects.

프랑스 노르망디 해협의 작은 항구도시 쉘부르, 어머니의 우산가게 일을 돕는 쥬느비에브와 자동차 수리공 기는 사랑에 빠진다. 팍팍한 현실과 주위의 반대에도 불구하고 행복한 미래를 꿈꾸던 어린 연인들. 하지만 갑작스러운 기의 군 입대로 둘은 원치 않은 이별을 하게 되는데...