Verdi: Falstaff – review

Ligabue/Adani/Dominguez/Oncina/Evans/Bruscantini/RPO/Gui (Glyndebourne, 2CDs)Glyndebourne's archive label Falstaff dates from 1960. Conducted, quite wonderfully, by the underrated Vittorio Gui, it stars Geraint Evans, dark-voiced and riotously lustful in the title role, opposite the beautiful, supremely self-assured Mistress Ford of Ilva Ligabue. Admirers of both singers will, I suspect, already own their famous 1963 studio recording of the opera conducted by Georg Solti, in which Ligabue sounds...

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