Falstaff Zurich

Features a great cast Ambrogio Maestri is one of the finest Falstaffs of our time The Italian baritone brings a powerful versatile voice to his role but also brings 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 Fritolli as Alice Ford Genuinely warm italianita in all of the musicmaking combined with a boisterous production by stage director SvenEric Bechtolf turns Verdis 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