Falstaff
From: Friday, 20th July 2012
To: Friday, 3 August 2012
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Synopsis
Based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, a comedy of deceit, ego and trickery in which the (almost) good wives of Windsor give Sir John Falstaff his come-uppance.
Our Review:
Keith McDonnell - 20 July 2012
Director Annilese Miskimmon’s new staging of Verdi’s comic masterpiece for Opera Holland Park has more than a whiff of Carry on Windsor about it, but charts a rather uncertain course throughout the first half of the evening.
Nicky Shaw’s brilliant revolving toy town set overcomes the hurdles that the stage at OHP presents, as there’s no fly tower or wings, but the opening scene is set in a sanatorium for veterans from the First World War. Falstaff, Pistola and Bardolpho are patients alongside a plethora of extras – some silent shell-shocked victims unceremoniously tipped out of the wheelchairs for questionable comedic effect, and the rest consisting of a gaggle of nurses and matrons.
In some respects this makes sense as Miskimmon is drawing on Falstaff’s past not only from the Merry Wives of Windsor, but Henry IV as well, yet this idea is fudged and not followed through properly. What does work is the portrayal of Falstaff as an ...
Cast
Olafur Sigurdarson (Falstaff)
George von Bergen (Ford)
Linda Richardson (Alice Ford)
Carolyn Dobbin (Meg Page)
Carole Wilson (Mistress Quickly)
Rhona McKail (Nanetta)
Benjamin Hulett (Fenton)
Christopher Turner (Dr Caius)
Brian Galliford (Bardolpho)
Simon Wilding (Pistola)
Creative
Verdi (Music)
Shakespeare (Book)
Boito (Lyrics)
Holland Park (Producer)
City of London Sinfonia (Company)
Opera Holland Park Chorus (Company)
Peter Robinson (Conductor)
Annilese Miskimmon (Director)
Nicky Shaw (Design)
Mark Jonathan (Lighting)
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