Otto Nicolais opera "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is mentioned in another essay on this website. "Falstaff," by Salieri, was produced in Vienna in 1798 another "Falstaff," by Balfe, came out in London in 1838. Shakespeares comedy, "The Merry Wives of Windsor," did not have its first lyric adaptation when the composer of "Rigoletto" and "Aida," influenced probably by his distinguished librettist, penned the score of his last work for the stage. Note: In the Shakespeare comedy Anne Ford is Anne Page. Scotti, Destinn, Alda, and Gay also have appeared at the Metropolitan in "Falstaff." The London production was at Covent Garden.īurghers and street-folk, Fords servants, maskers, as elves, fairies, witches, etc.
The Metropolitan cast included Maurel as Falstaff, Eames as Mistress Ford, Zelie de Lussan as Nanetta (Anne), Scalchi as Dame Quickly, Campanini as Ford, Russitano as Fenton. It had been heard in Buenos Aires, July 19, 1893.
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This was the first performance of "Falstaff" in North America. New York, Metropolitan Opera House, February 4, 1895. Opera in three acts, by Verdi words by Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeares "Merry Wives of Windsor" and "King Henry IV." Produced, La Scala, Milan, March 12, 1893.
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