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Key facts
- Librettist
- Arrigo Boito
- Language
- Italian
- Based on
- The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2 , by William Shakespeare
- Premiere
- 9 February 1893 ( 1893-02-09 ) , La Scala , Milan
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Wikidata facts
- Genre
- opera
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Based on
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Screenwriter
- William Shakespeare
- Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Duration
- 2.75
- Librettist
- Arrigo Boito
- Image
- Un piazzale, a destra l'esterno dell'Osteria della Giarrettiera, bozzetto di Adolf Hohenstein per Falstaff (1893) - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON000166.jpg
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- inception
- 1889-00-00
- Commons category
- Falstaff (Verdi)
- date of first performance
- 1893-02-09
- number of parts of this work
- 6
- title
- Falstaff
- language of work or name
- Italian
- location of first performance
- La Scala
- publication date
- 1850-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- form of creative work
- opera
- native label
- Falstaff
- different from
- Falstaff
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Encyclopedic overview
Falstaff ( Italian pronunciation: [ˈfalstaf]) is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan.
Verdi wrote Falstaff, the last of his 26 operas, as he approached the age of 80. It was his second comedy, and his third work based on a Shakespeare play, following Macbeth and Otello. The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat knight Sir John Falstaff to seduce two married women to gain access to their husbands' wealth.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Falstaff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.