Comedy, it has been said, is harder to do than drama — which only underlines the achievement Friday night of the Aspen Music Festival’s one-night-only production of Verdi’s opera Falstaff. It was a ...

Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also making room for a Puccini tragedy. By Rebecca Schmid For Ambrogio Maestri, a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick Michael Volle puts his noble voice to delightfully undignified use as the title character in Robert Carsen’s still fresh production of ...

We'll continue our celebration of Shakespeare's birthday this evening with music by his contemporary John Dowland and Elgar's symphonic portrait of Sir John Falstaff. Tune in at 8 p.m. on 91.1 and 107 ...

Translating Shakespeare to a new style is a theatrical tradition as time honored as the Bard himself. In the last couple of years, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has produced Coriolanus in Portland with ...

Verdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff, in its first new Metropolitan Opera production in 50 years — and conducted by Met Music Director James Levine in his first Great Performances at the Met ...

On January 3, 1799, seven years after Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s death from natural causes, Antonio Salieri’s Falstaff had its premiere at the Kärtnerthortheater in Vienna. (Such causes did not include ...

Editor’s note: This story about Falstaff, which will be performed tonight at the Aspen Music Festival, was first published in The Aspen Times in July 2011 and has been updated. “Falstaff” is not like ...

Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...