Falstaff(ii)
- Roger Parker
Extract
Commedia lirica in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi to a libretto by arrigo Boito after william Shakespeare ’s plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV; Milan, Teatro alla Scala, 9 February 1893.
Verdi talked intermittently of writing a comic opera during the latter part of his career, but never found a libretto to his taste until, some two years after the success of ...
