Mario Luperi

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  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.

  Falstaff

  1987

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  Live from La Scala 1991

  Attila

  1991 · 1 votes

• Movie9.5

  MusicDrama

  Live performance from La Scala in Milan. Nabucco was the first production of the theatre's 1986-87 season.

  Nabucco

  1986 · 2 votes

• Movie9.0

  Music

  Rigoletto is a jester in the court of the Duke of Mantua. He has a hunch-back and he's rather unattractive, but he's good at his job of humiliating the courtiers for the amusement of the Duke. The courtiers, of course, are not amused. The Duke is a ladies man who feels his life would be meaningless if he couldn't chase every skirt he sees. In fact, we learn as the opera begins that he's recently been noticing a young lady every Sunday on her way to church, and he's vowed to have his way with her. What nobody realizes is that the girl is the jester's beloved daughter, Gilda, and that Gilda has seen the Duke every Sunday and is smitten with him. Suddenly Count Monterone appears at court, furious that the Duke has seduced his daughter. Rigoletto ridicules Monterone, the Duke laughs, and Monterone casts an awful curse on both of them. Later, the courtiers discover that Rigoletto is secretly living with Gilda...

  Rigoletto

  2001 · 1 votes

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  Music

  A groundbreaking production of Verdi's masterpiece and its first video recording. Recorded live in Florence in 1977.

  Nabucco

  1977

• Movie

  Music

  A live recording of Don Giovanni from the Festspielhaus Baden Baden, recorded on May 23rd 2013.

  Mozart Don Giovanni

  2013