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Updated: May 2, 2025
In this episode occurs the fairy masquerade at Herne's Oak, in the midst of which he is set upon and beaten, ending in his complete discomfiture. Then all is explained to him; Nannetta is betrothed to Fenton; and all ends merry as a marriage bell. There is no overture. After four bars of prelude the curtain rises, and the composer introduces Dr.
"Falstaff," an opera in three acts, words by Arrigo Boito, was first performed March 12, 1893, at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, with the following cast of characters: Mistress FORD Signora ZILLI NANNETTA Madame STEHLE FENTON M. GARBIN Dr.
Ford entertains him for a few minutes, and then, according to their arrangement, Dame Quickly runs in to say that Mrs. Falstaff hastily hides himself behind a large screen, but the jest changes to earnest when Mrs. The women quickly slip Falstaff into a huge basket and cover him with dirty linen, while Nannetta and Fenton who have been indulging in another stolen interview slip behind the screen.
Meanwhile Nannetta has induced her father, by means of a trick, to consent to her marriage with Fenton, and the act ends with a song of rejoicing in the shape of a magnificent fugue in which every one joins. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about 'Falstaff' is that it was written by a man eighty years old. It is the very incarnation of youth and high spirits.
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