Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It's been said that Shakespeare's plays are notoriously hard to translate into ...

Translating Shakespeare to a new style is a theatrical tradition as time honored as the Bard himself. In the last couple of years, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has produced Coriolanus in Portland with ...

Over the six decades of his career, Giuseppe Verdi (1813­-1901) composed 28 operas, many of which are at the core of today's repertoire. Verdi's final work for the stage, Falstaff made its World ...

ASPEN – As the long ovation subsided after a stunning performance of Verdi’s “Falstaff,” the folks sitting behind me clearly were not so enchanted. “Too bad Verdi lost his flair for melody after ‘Aida ...

Reginald Smith. Jr. and Nicole Heaston in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane If you want to know what walking on air sounds like, turn your attention to Giuseppe Verdi’s last ...

Berkshire Opera Festival (BOF) returns to the Mahaiwe stage in Great Barrington, MA this year with none other than one of the greatest comedic operas ever composed, Giuseppe Verdi’s Falstaff – with ...

Written in the 1890s when the composer was in his late 70s, Falstaff was Verdi's last opera and very different from the works that had established his pre-eminence. Grand operas such as La Traviata, ...

Verdi and Boito recognised this, as I realised watching the Royal Opera House’s brand-new production by Robert Carsen. This is a Shakespearian mash-up, with Falstaff’s best lines from the Henry IV ...

HE WHO laughs last, laughs best – the concluding message of Falstaff sums up what is the most cheerful and warmhearted production of Verdi’s final opera I have seen. Director Bruno Ravella’s staging ...

Verdi’s only successful comedy, Falstaff, opens at San Diego Opera on Saturday, February 18, 7 p.m. There will be four performances running through February 26. Falstaff was the last opera Verdi ...

When an early 17th century play is turned into a late 19th century opera which is then given a setting in the 1940s, it sounds like a recipe for utter confusion, but Richard Jones' production at ...