Falstaff
by Butler School of Music
Apr. 16 - Apr. 25, 2027
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. The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat knight Sir John Falstaff to seduce two married women to gain access to their husbands' wealth.
Douglas Kinney Frost, conductor
Madison Jackson, stage director
Sung in Italian with supertitles.
Falstaff
by Giuseppi Verdi, Arrigo Boito
Butler School of Music
Robert Dedman Drive and E. 23rd Street
Campus of the University of Texas
Austin, TX, 78712
April 16 - 25, 2027
McCullough Theatre, Butler School of Music, University of Texas, Austin
