Verdi: Falstaff
) | Label: CME Catalog: 711108 Format: DVD MAESTRI; FRITTOLI; CAVALLETTI; LIEBAU; GATTI; ORCHESTRA OF ZURICH OPERA; CHOIR OF ZURICH OPERAThe task of holding the production together…rests on the well-fed shoulders of Ambrogio Maestri in the title role. The naturally rotund and double-chinned baritone is ideal physically to play the knight. …Maestri offers a lot vocally. His piano passages are particularly expressive, and he can add comic vocal effects without sacrificing musical lines. As Alice, Barbara Frittoli has some shining moments. The Act III Black Huntsman story shows off her rich lower register… Javier Camarena’s Fenton stands out among the rest of the principals. The Mexican tenor…has a flexible voice with plenty of well-placed shading… As…Nannetta, Eva Liebau has a very sweet voice…Yvonne Naef plays a stylish and cat-like Mistress Quickly…conductor Daniele Gatti leads an excellent, well-organized “Tutto nel mondo è burla” fugue; every voice, human and instrumental, is perfectly distinguishable. © 2012 Opera News  Price: $35.98 |