Christopher Purves sings Falstaff
An international cast led by the exciting British baritone Christopher Purves in the larger-than-life role of the corpulent Falstaff. This new Richard Jones production with designs by Ultz will be conducted by Vladimir Jurowski. The cast includes Dina Kuznetsova as Alice Ford, Tassis Christoyannis as Ford, Marie-Nicole Lemieux as Mistress Quickly and Peter Hoare as Dr Caius.
The production opens on Thursday 21st May with further performances on:
24, 30 May
3, 6, 9, 12, 21, 24, 27 June
1, 4, 8, 11 July
Glyndebourne first presented Falstaff in its 1955 Edinburgh Festival season, in a production with typically witty designs by Osbert Lancaster that slyly included caricatures of several members of the Glyndebourne staff among the ancestral portraits hanging on Ford’s walls. This year’s new production reunites the director/conductor team of Richard Jones and Vladimir Jurowski, who scored such a striking success with their 2007 collaboration on Verdi’s first Shakespearian opera, Macbeth.
