Ep. 213: Verdi's Merry Masterpiece – Falstaff

Met Opera Guild Podcast by Metropolitan Opera Guild

Verdi’s final opera, Falstaff, is based on Shakespeare’s Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV, Part 1, but it did not become a huge success until Arturo Toscanini insisted on reviving it at La Scala, and later The Metropo...View more