Falstaff, Laurent Pelly Daniele Rustioni, Teatro Real Madrid 2019 ( DVD Blu ray trailer)

Giuseppe Verdi and Arrigo Boitos last masterpiece takes the stage of Teatro Real for the first time in seventeen years, in a new production by Laurent Pelly conducted by Daniele Rustioni. Check out online : Watch on VOD : Out of Giuseppe Verdis adoration for William Shakespeare three masterpieces were born : Macbeth, Otello and, as a musical testament, his only comedy Falstaff. But in accordance with its librettist Arrigo Boitos wish to remove the original bourgeois farce The Merry Wives of Windsor out of the English mists and to warm it up to the clear Tuscan sun, Falstaff transforms Shakespeares morality play into an ode to life, to pleasure and to reconciliation that forgives human vices, rewards intelligence and virtue, and praises that spark of madness that gives life its flavour. Shakespeares most famous and subversive comic character has indeed proved to be a fertile ground for Verdi who, then eightyyears old, signed with Fa