Reginald Smith, Jr. as the immortal Falstaff. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only ...
In Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Amadeus,” running through January, Antonio Salieri is the villain. That play and its 1984 film adaptation repeated fictions that have tarred the composer’s reputation for ...
Guiseppe Verdi’s comic opera “Falstaff” will be the Metropolitan Opera high-definition broadcast on Saturday, Dec. 14, at Colorado Mountain College in Breckenridge. Opera buffs around the world often ...
After the darkness and death permeating Verdi’s “Il Trovatore,” which Seattle Opera presented a few weeks ago, there could hardly be a stronger or more salubrious contrast than the brilliance and ...
While there is some competition from such mere septuagenarians as Claudio Monteverdi, Richard Wagner and Leos Janacek, the greatest opera ever written in old age is Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff,” ...