Opera on 3: Live from the Met: Verdi 200 - Falstaff

Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, a performance of Verdi's late, great comedy Falstaff. Ambrogio Maestri sings the role of the hapless Falstaff in his attempts to seduce Alice Ford and Meg Page. When they receive identical love letters, they decide to make sure the last laugh is on him. After much double-crossing and disguising, Falstaff ends up humiliated in a laundry basket in the Thames. Presented by Margaret Juntwait and Ira Siff. Verdi: Falstaff. Lisette Oropesa, soprano (Nannetta), Angela Meade, soprano (Alice), Stephanie Blythe, contralto (Mrs Quickly), Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano (Meg Page), Paolo Fanale, tenor (Fenton), Ambrogio Maestri, baritone (Falstaff), Franco Vassallo, baritone (Ford), Carlo Bosi, tenor (Dr Caius), Keith Jameson, tenor (Bardolfo), Christian Van Horn, bass-baritone (Pistola), Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/James Levine