Verdi - Falstaff - Bacquier, Stilwell - Solti 1979DVD9 - NTSC - 4:3 - All Regions - Italian - LPCM, DTS - 125min.
Subtitles: Italian/German/English/French/Spanish/Chinese
Deutsche Grammophon 073 4080 6, released 2005
Performers: John Lanigan, Jutta-Renate Ihloff, Karen Armstrong, Richard Stilwell, Ulrik Cold, Sylvia Lindenstrand, Gabriel Bacquier, Peter Maus, Mártha Szirmay, Max Cosotti
Conductor: Georg Solti
Ensembles: Vienna Boys' Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Chorus
Directed: Götz Friedrich
Solti's finest reading. Splendid singers grace this lavish version, well dubbed . . . Record Review / Michael Scott Rohan, BBC Music Magazine (London) / 01. March 2006
The cast is uniformly good. Richard Stilwell is Ford, Alice's husband. The young lovers are played by Max-Rene Cosotti as Fenton, a role he has played at Glyndebourne, and a lovely Jutta-Renate Ihloff as Nanetta, the daughter of Alice and Ford. Alice is sung by Karan Armstrong. As I listen to "Alfin t'ho colto, raggiante fior" from part two, sung by Falstaff and Alice in Ford's house, I can hear, for the very first time, small musical phrases quoting from Wagner's "Die Meistersinger". That is a particularly stark example of the clarity of this performance! Amazon
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