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Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele, 1995
Soloists: John Del Carlo, Teresa Ringholz, Richard Croft
Orchestra, Chorus: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Conductor: Arnold Östman
Director: Michael Hampe
Soloists: John Del Carlo, Teresa Ringholz, Richard Croft
Orchestra, Chorus: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
Conductor: Arnold Östman
Director: Michael Hampe
Antonio Salieri set Shakespeare's comedy "The Merry Wives of Windsor" to music in 1799, and his work was successfully premiered in Vienna the same year. Michael Hampe staged Salieris's "Falstaff" at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival in 1995 with similar success - wonderfully supported by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and conductor Arnold Östman. The libretto by Carlo Prospero Defranceschi reduces Shakespeare's original play to a few main characters and drastically simplifies the plot. This gives John Del Carlo, Teresa Ringholz, Richard Croft and Delores Ziegler a lot of space for their artistic interpretation and brilliant singing. The work lives from the wealth of the Italian opera buffa and absorbed influences from the German "Singspiel" (song-play), and delights with a number of great arias.


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