Episode 9: Verdi & Zeffirelli's Falstaff - As We Like It

Episode 9: Verdi & Zeffirelli's Falstaff

Episode 9: Verdi & Zeffirelli's Falstaff
Jonathan Cox, Aven McMaster, and Mark Sundaram

We explore some of the history of opera in our discussion of this filmed version of Franco Zeffirelli's production of Verdi's Falstaff at the Metropolitan Opera. A comic romp with some lovely music and lavish staging, the show provides some interesting insights into Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, on which it's based.