Reginald Smith, Jr. as the immortal Falstaff. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only ...

Teatru Manoel and Malta National Opera today announce the complete cast for their forthcoming production of Verdi's Falstaff, ...

In Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Amadeus,” running through January, Antonio Salieri is the villain. That play and its 1984 film adaptation repeated fictions that have tarred the composer’s reputation for ...

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 ...

As a soprano and baritone, respectively, Karen Kanakis and Jacob Lassetter don’t often get to reprise their real-life roles as husband and wife on stage. More often, if they happen to be working ...

Reginald Smith. Jr. and Nicole Heaston in Falstaff at Houston Grand Opera. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane If you want to know what walking on air sounds like, turn your attention to Giuseppe Verdi’s last ...

Translating Shakespeare to a new style is a theatrical tradition as time honored as the Bard himself. In the last couple of years, Oregon Shakespeare Festival has produced Coriolanus in Portland with ...

Lusty, foolhardy and hilarious, Sir John Falstaff is the kind of character actors relish sinking their teeth into, and Reginald Smith Jr. makes a meal out of him in Houston Grand Opera’s new ...

Hera Hysesang Park as Nannetta, Ailyn Pérez as Alice, Jennifer Johnson Cano as Meg, and Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly in Verdi’s “Falstaff.” Photo: Karen Almond/Met Opera Robert Carsen’s ...

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.