Falstaff - Giuseppe Taddei - Anna Moffo - Luigi Alva - Tullio Serafin - TV 1956 - Restored 2024 - 4K

Falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan. Verdi wrote Falstaff, the last of his 26 operas, as he approached the age of 80. It was his second comedy, and his third work based on a Shakespeare play, following Macbeth and Otello. Falstaff - Conductor - Tullio Serafin CAST Giuseppe Taddei ... Sir John Falstaff Anna Moffo ... Nannetta Luigi Alva ... Fenton Franco Calabrese ... Pistola Scipione Colombo ... Ford Mario Carlin ... Dr. Caius Renato Ercolani ... Bardolfo Rosanna Carteri ... Alice Ford Fedora Barbieri ... Mrs. Quickly Anna Maria Canali ... Meg Page Orchestra Sinfonica della Radiotelevisione Italiana - Milano Coro della Radiotelevisione Italiana - Milano Directed by Herbert Graf