Editor’s note: This story about Falstaff, which will be performed tonight at the Aspen Music Festival, was first published in The Aspen Times in July 2011 and has been updated. “Falstaff” is not like ...

LEBANON, N.H. Verdi's opera "Falstaff" combines Shakespeare's character of "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV" to create one of the very few comedies in the golden age of Romantic opera.

After plenty of pranks and ploys, “Falstaff” declared that “he who laughs last laughs best” — and it was perhaps the audience that laughed best as they left the Agassiz Theatre, delighted by the ...

Over the six decades of his career, Giuseppe Verdi (1813­-1901) composed 28 operas, many of which are at the core of today's repertoire. Verdi's final work for the stage, Falstaff made its World ...

The 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi s birth is being celebrated this month. Of the more than two dozen operas he composed, here are 10 The Associated Press recommends: Aida Riccardo Muti, ...

NEW YORK — Luisa Miller did not attend “Luisa Miller” at the Metropolitan Opera on Wednesday night, but Falstaff and Un Giorno di Regno did. That is not absurdist nonsense. It is a matter of quotation ...