FALSTAFF Met 2023 Michael Volle, Christopher Maltman, Ailyn Pérez, Marie-Nicole Lemieux

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Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Falstaff  
• Composer: Verdi Giuseppe  
• Libretto: Arrigo Boito    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, New York City  
• Recorded: April 1, 2023
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Michael Volle, Christopher Maltman, Ailyn Pérez, Jennifer Johnson Cano, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Hera Hyesang Park, Bogdan Volkov
• Conductor: Daniele Rustioni  
• Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra  
• Chorus: Metropolitan Opera Chorus  
• Stage Director: Robert Carsen  
• Stage Designer: Paul Steinberg  
• Costume Designer: Brigitte Reiffenstuel   
• Lighting Designer: Robert Carsen, Peter Van Praet  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Met HD in Cinema  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs  
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The opera is set in and around the town of Windsor, west of London, in the first decades of the 15th century.
The current Met production places the action in mid-20th century England, after the Second World War—an era when long-established social norms were rapidly changing and the aristocracy lost much of their wealth and influence