Falstaff
WNO
Paradise Moscow
Royal Academy of Music
Verdi’s last opera Falstaff is also for many people his greatest. I went to see it in Cardiff this week, having heard Radio Three’s broadcast of his previous opera Otello from the New York Met a couple of evenings before.
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