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ID: SIGDVD001
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera Collection
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. |
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