VERDI - FALSTAFF / Barbara Frittoli / Eva Liebau / Ambrogio Maestri / Massimo Cavalletti / Zürich Opera / Daniele Gatti / STAGED BY SVEN-ERIC BECHTOLF / UNITEL CLASSICA / major / DVD Video

UPC 814337011116

Playtime is 126 Minutes 

"All the world's a joke," says Falstaff, and these words are truly given weight by Ambrogio Maestri, one of the finest Falstaffs of our time. The Italian baritone brings a powerful, versatile voice to his role, but also brings to his character a hilarious buffo quality. Daniele Gatti, one of the most acclaimed opera conductors working today, leads a stunning cast of singers, including Barbara Frittoli as Alice Ford. Genuinely warm italianità in all of the music-making, combined with a boisterous production by stage director Sven-Eric Bechtolf, turns Verdi's commedia lirica into a fireworks display of high spirits as well as what the Neue Zürcher Zeitung called "musically and dramaturgically a feast of life and of love of life".

Chorus and Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House

DANIELE GATTI

Set Designer: Rolf Glittenberg

Costume Designer: Marianne Glittenberg

Lighting Designer: Jürgen Hoffmann

Chorus Master: Ernst Raffelsberger

Video Director: Felix Breisach

Staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf

• FILMED IN HIGH DEFINITION
• MASTERED FROM All HD SOURCE
• PICTURE FORMAT: NTSC 16:9
• SOUND FORMATS: PCM STEREO, DTS 5.0
• REGION CODE 0 (WORLDWIDE)
• TOTAL RUNNING TIME 126 MINS
• SUBTITLES: ITALIAN (ORIGINAL LANGUAGE), ENGLISH, GERMAN, FRENCH, SPANISH, CHINESE, KOREAN