Salieri: Falstaff / René Jacobs

In the organizer's words:

The other Falstaff

Music history has not been kind to Antonio Salieri. To this day, he is defamed as an adversary, envy or even murderer of Mozart - fueled not least by Miloš Forman's film "Amadeus", which portrays Salieri as an unscrupulous ambitious man and mediocre composer. However, this has little to do with reality. Especially during his lifetime, the Italian composer was held in high esteem, and a joint composition by Mozart and Salieri testifies to a friendly and collegial relationship between the two rather than open hostility. So it's high time for a rehabilitation! Conductor and early music specialist René Jacobs is now providing this by bringing Salieri's original opera "Falstaff ossia Le tre burle", which alternates between light-hearted and serious, to the Great Hall. That's right, the Falstaff for whom William Shakespeare once provided the model with "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and who became immortalized above all through Giuseppe Verdi's opera. Jacobs is thus continuing his successful series of concert operas at the Elbphilharmonie, which has already included an early version of Beethoven's "Fidelio" and Bizet's "Carmen". Once again, he can rely on the Belgian B'Rock Orchestra and a well-performed vocal ensemble led by Croatian bass-baritone Krešimir Stražanac.

Cast

B'Rock Orchestra

Krešimir StražanacSir John Falstaff

Anett FritschMrs Alice Ford

Grégoire MourMr Ford

Luigi de DonatoBandolfo

Sophie HarmsenMs Slender

Arttu KatajaMr Slender

Sunhae ImBetty

ConductorRené Jacobs

Program

Antonio Salieri
Falstaff ossia Le tre burle / Dramma giocoso in two acts

Concert performance in Italian with German surtitles

Venue: Elbphilharmonie / Great Hall

Organizer: HamburgMusik