2006/2007 Season Opera

Giuseppe Verdi : FALSTAFF

OPERA HOUSE

Sir John Falstaff	:	Alan Titus
Ford	:	Wolfgang Brendel
Fenton	:	Higuchi Tatsuya
Dr. Cajus	:	Ono Mitsuhiko
Bardolfo	:	Otsuki Takashi
Pistola	:	Tsumaya Hidekazu
Mrs.Alice Ford	:	Serena Farnocchia
Nannetta	:	Nakamura Eri
Mrs. Quickly	:	Karan Armstrong
Mrs. Meg Page	:	Obayashi Tomoko
Chorus	:	New National Theatre Chorus
Orchestra	:	Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

June 2007	13	16	19	21
	Wed	Sat	Tue	Thu
2:00		X		X
6:30	X
7:00			X

Doors will open 45 minutes before the opening of the performance.
Approximate running time : 2 hours 30 minutes

	S	A	B	C	D	Z
Price(yen)	21,000	15,750	10,500	6,300	3,150	1,500

The final opera by the master Verdi; a masterpiece regarded as the pinnacle of Italian comic opera. A man who has seen it all faces the end of his life coolly, with a smile on his lips. It is a work whose libretto and score both combine incomparable entertainment with a profound philosophy of life, and under the masterful direction of Jonathan Miller, the dignity of mankind is subtly depicted amidst the buoyant tempo and the laughter. Some of your favorite singers will display the apex of their talents and invite you to laugh aloud at the complexities of human nature in this avidly awaited revival.

The fat, old Sir John Falstaff sends love letters to two ladies of means, Alice Ford and Meg Page, asking for money. The women realize that the letters they have received are identical, and conspire together with Falstaff's retainers Bardolfo and Pistola, who bear a grudge against their master, as well as Ford and Dr. Cajus, to teach Falstaff a lesson. While Falstaff is lured out and is pinched and pricked in Windsor Park, it emerges that Ford's daughter Nannetta has actually married her lover Fenton, thereby bring the opera to a happy ending.