Falstaff

Enjoy a merry evening at the Opera, when Verdi and Shakespeare together put a puffed-up knight in his place and celebrate female cunning. Sir John Falstaff is an elderly gentleman with no money in his pockets but very high thoughts of himself and his prospects of charming his way into the affections of the opposite sex. To improve his financial situation he tries to seduce two wealthy, married wives in Windsor - at the same time. But the women band together and give the puffed-up knight a lesson that will be felt. Shakespeare's play The Merry Wives of Windsor is a sparkling, inventive comedy, and Verdi captures the tone, the wit and the humour in his last great masterpiece. In his opera he draws a loving musical portrait of the heavily self-overestimating Falstaff and the clever women who are not so easily fooled by his double game. Peter Langdal's cheerful staging from 2013 fires up both colours and fun, so an entertaining evening at the Opera is in store. Musically, too, a festive firework display awaits, with the Danish world-class baritone Johan Reuter in the title role as Falstaff, together with Gisela Stille, Clara Cecilie Thomsen, Hanne Fischer and Kari Dahl Nielsen as the merry and cunning wives of Windsor, and Gihoon Kim, who received the honour BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2021, plays the role of Mr. Ford. Falstaff is sung in Italian with Danish and English surtitles. Recommended from age 8

• Dirigent: Vito Cristofaro
• Johan Reuter (Sir John Falstaff)
• Gihoon Kim (Ford)
• Galeano Salas (Fenton)
• Niels Jørgen Riis (Dr. Cajus)
• Fredrik Bjellsäter (Bardolfo)
• Kyungil Ko (Pistola)
• Gisela Stille (Mrs. Alice Ford)
• Clara Cecilie Thomsen (Nannetta)
• Hanne Fischer (Mrs. Quickly)
• Julie Husballe Hansen (Mrs. Meg Page)

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