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ID: SIGDVD001 (EAN: 635212000199) | 1 DVD | DDD - 24 b Released in: 2008
- LABEL:
- Signum Records
- Collection:
- Opera Collection
- Composers:
- VERDI, Giuseppe
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Interprets:
- Concertus Novo (mezzo-soprano) | DANCEANU, Rodica (soprano) | Florilegium String Quartet (tenor) | Game Percussion Ensemble (tenor) | MATEI, Alexandro (baritone) | NOVAC, Serban (tenor) | RODILLA, Jose Miguel (bass) | TEROL, Eduardo (contralto) | Trio Equinoxe (soprano) | VARTOLOMEI, Anca (baritone)
- Conductors:
- AFANASIEV, Viktor
- Other info:
Region Code: PAL.Region 0, Plays in all territories
Menu screens: English
Color mode: Colour.Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Qualiton Imports LTD.
Screen Format: 16.9
DVD Format: DVD 9
Duration: 118 mins
Subtitles: none
Sound Format: AC3 5.1, PCM stereo
John Falstaff - Ian Jervis, baritone
Alice Ford - Jan Hartley, soprano
Francis Ford QC - Julian Forsyth, baritone
Doctor Caius - Simon Butteriss, tenor
Bardolph - Daniel Gillingwater, tenor
Pistol - Simon Masterton Smith, bass
Mrs Quickly - Marilyn Cutts, contralto
Meg Page - Rosamund Shelley, mezzo-soprano
Nanetta Ford - Katie Lovell, soprano
Fenton - Andy Morton, tenor
Verdi’s timeless masterpiece brought up to date in a hilarious new English version, shot on and around a golf course.
At a golf club near Windsor, “Big John” Falstaff props up the bar at the nineteenth hole, (the member’s bar) which is where he is invariably to be found. He doesn’t actually play golf, because no-one wants to play with him - and anyway he’s probably too plump to make it beyond the first green. However he takes comfort in the fact that his bar bill is about to be settled, and all he has to do to achieve this extraordinary feat is to seduce the lovely Alice Ford, a task that he considers himself eminently qualified to undertake. As the big man blunders from one catastrophe to another and the plot races towards its uproarious conclusion, Tony Britten’s trademark wit and accessibility perfectly compliments Verdi’s glorious comedy.
Falstaff is an operatic commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV.
SCENE LIST | | VERDI, Giuseppe (1813-1901) | | Falstaff | | SCENE LIST | | 1. | 1. Act 1, Scene 1 - The member's bar | | | 2. | The Member's Bar | 7:50 | | 3. | 2. Falstaff's plan | | | 4. | Falstaff's Plan | 7:36 | | 5. | 3. Act 1, Scene 2 - The ladies foursome | | | 6. | The Ladies Foursome | 5:13 | | 7. | 4. Sneaking to Francis Ford QC | | | 8. | Sneaking to Francis Ford QC | 2:15 | | 9. | 5. The young lovers | | | 10. | The Young Lovers | 1:44 | | 11. | 6. The ladies are plotting | | | 12. | The Ladies are Plotting | 4:49 | | 13. | 7. The octet | | | 14. | The Nonet | 2:29 | | 15. | 8. Act 2, Scene 1 - Mrs Quickly's proposition | | | 16. | Mrs Quickly's Proposition | 7:03 | | 17. | 9. Signor Fontana | | | 18. | Signor Fontana | 15:50 | | 19. | 10. Act 2, Scene 2 - Alice Ford's house | | | 20. | Alice Ford's House | 6:18 | | 21. | 11. The big seduction | | | 22. | The Big Seduction | 3:41 | | 23. | 12. Ford is home! | | | 24. | Ford Is Home! | 5:13 | | 25. | 13. Bathroom action | | | 26. | Bathroom Action | 3:42 | | 27. | 14. Act 3, Scene 1 - off to the dump | | | 28. | Off to the Dump | 1:03 | | 29. | 15. Falstaff the health hazard | | | 30. | Falstaff the Health Hazard | 5:05 | | 31. | 16. Mrs Quickly tries again | | | 32. | Mrs Quickly Tries Again | 5:50 | | 33. | 17. Alice and Ford counter-plotting | | | 34. | Alice and Ford Counter- Plotting | 4:30 | | 35. | 18. Act 3, Scene 2 - Herne's oak | | | 36. | Herne's Oak | 4:37 | | 37. | 19. Herne the horny hunter | | | 38. | Herne the Horny Hunter | 3:59 | | 39. | 20. Wood nymphs and fairies | | | 40. | Would Nymphs and Fairies | 3:38 | | 41. | 21. The revenge of the Mafia | | | 42. | The Revenge of the Mafia | 4:51 | | 43. | 22. The denouement | | | 44. | The Denouncement | 5:16 | | 45. | 23. The fugue | | | 46. | The Fugue | 3:09 | | 47. | 24. End titles | | | 48. | End Titles | 1:11 | | Behind the scenes documentary | | This radical restaging of Verdi's Falstaff updates the story so that it now takes place in and around a golf course. Falstaff is a fixture at the course's bar, even though he never plays the game. His larger-than-life sense of merriment makes him popular, but his drink tab has grown large enough to be a problem. He plans on seducing the wealthy Alice Ford in order to solve this situation. The cast includes Ian Jervis, Julian Forsyth, Daniel Gillingwater, and Simon Masterton.
˜ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide
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