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Antonio Salieri: Falstaff (opera)

• Opera, dramma giocoso, 'Falstaff, ossia le tre burle' ('Falstaff, or The Three Jokes'), in two acts, Italian
• Libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi
• Based on the play The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare, Bard of Avon
• Time and place: Windsor, England, in the 17th century

• Premieres:
  • First Premiere on 3 January 1799 at Kärntnertortheater, Vienna, Austria. Twenty-six performances were given between then and 1802.
  • USA. The American premiere took place on 15 November 1974 in the National Theater of the Boston Center for the Arts with David Arnold in the title role, supported by Elizabeth Phinney, Pamela Gore, Frank Hoffmeister, and Ernest Triplett, with an English translation by Michael Auclair and scenery by William Fregosi. The conductor was Robert Willoughby Jones.
  • Falstaff has been seen more frequently on stage in recent times, e.g. B. 1961 in Siena, 1975 in Verona and in Salieri's hometown of Legnago, 1976 in Salzburg, 1977 in Trieste, 1981 in Verona, 1985 in Budapest, 1987 in Parma and in Bordeaux, 1988 in Konstanz, 1991 in Bad Aibling, 1992 in Drottningholm , 1995 at the Schwetzingen Festival and in Rheinsberg, 1996 in Milan, 1998 in New York, 2000 again in Konstanz, 2002 in Rennes and Innsbruck, 2003 at Dankern Castle in Emsland and in Bampton/England, 2004 at the Bath Shakespeare Festival, 2005 in Vienna and in Hausen am Albis, Switzerland, in 2006 in Otago/New Zealand, in 2007 in Nijetrijne/Holland, in 2012 in Biel/Switzerland, and in 2016 in the Theater an der Wien.
    

Painting by Henry Fuseli: Falstaff in the Washbasket, 1792

• Characters:
  • Sir John Falstaff, a fat knight, bass
    • HP Sir John Oldcastle, MP
    • HP Sir John Fastolf II, KG
    • HP Robert Greene in Wikipedia
    • HP William Rogers
    • Carlo Angrisani in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Gino Bechi
    • József Gregor
    • John de Carlo
    • David Arnold
    • Mark Saberton
    • Pierre-Yves Pruvot
  • Ford, a wealthy man, tenor
    • Giuseppe Simoni in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Carlo Franzini (pseudonym Saturnino)
    • Richard Croft
    • Frank Hoffmeister
    • Mark Wilde
  • Alice Ford, his wife, soprano
    • Irene Tomeoni in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Mafalda Micheluzzi
    • Elizabeth Phinney
    • Amanda Pitt
  • Slender, bass or baritone
    • Ignaz Saal in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Gino Orlandini
    • Jake Gardner
    • Ernest Triplett
    • Adam Green
  • Mistress Slender, soprano or mezzo-soprano
    • Louise Milloch in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Anna Maria Rota
    • Delores Ziegler
    • Pamela Gore
    • Joanne Thomas
  • Bardolfo, servant, baritone
    • Gaetano Lotti in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Carlos Feller
    • Teodoro Rovetta
    • Nicholas Merryweather
  • Betty, Mistress Ford's maid, soprano
    • Marianne Gaßmann in the first premiere 3 January 1799
    • Darla Brooks
    • Valeria Mariconda
    • Ilona Domnich
• Scenographers and costume designors:
  • William Fregosi
• Stage directors:
  • Jeremy Gray, (assistant director Harry Fehr)
• Conductors:
  • Antonio Salieri in the first premiere 3 January 1799
  • Robert Willoughby Jones
  • Bruno Rigacci
  • Arnold Otto Natanael Östman
  • Murray Hipkin
  • Jean-Claude Malgoire
  • Alberto Veronesi