Uploaded November 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Giuseppe Taddei, Rolando Panerai, Francisco Araiza, Christa Ludwig, Raina Kabaivanska, Janet Perry, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsoperchor
Wiener Philharmoniker, conducted & staged by Herbert von Karajan

Based, in part, on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi’s last work for the stage – and only his second comic opera. And yet the humour in this multilayered masterpiece is distinctly wry, for all the main characters exhibit an array of human weaknesses that are implacably exposed by Verdi and his librettist Arrigo Boito. In this legendary performance from the Salzburg Festival, Herbert von Karajan is not only leading a stunning cast of singers featuring the Wiener Philharmoniker, he too directed the opera, in the amazing set design of Günther Schneider-Siemssen.

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