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Verdi: Falstaff from Salzburger Festspiele 1982

In this legendary performance from the Salzburg Festival 1982 Herbert von Karajan is leading a stunning cast of singers featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker.

Based, in part, on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi’s last work for the stage – and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito. In this legendary performance from the Salzburg Festival 1982, Herbert von Karajan is not only leading a stunning cast of singers (Giuseppe Taddei, Rolando Panerai, Francisco Araiza, Raina Kabaivanska, Christa Ludwig, Janet Perry, Trudeliese Schmidt) featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker, he too directed the opera, in the amazing set design of Günther Schneider-Siemssen.

Original title Verdi: Falstaff from Salzburger Festspiele 1982
Genre Opera
Recording location Salzburger Festspiele 1982
Duration 135 mins
Production Company A co-production of ORF and TELEMONDIAL
Composer Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra / Band Wiener Philharmoniker
Conductor Herbert von Karajan
Choir Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoperchor
Chorus Master Walter Hagen-Groll
Stage Director Herbert von Karajan
Soloist Giuseppe Taddei, Rolando Panerai, Francisco Araiza, Raina Kabaivanska, Christa Ludwig, Janet Perry, Trudeliese Schmidt,