A beer at the opera with Falstaff | Tom Service

Watching Verdi's Falstaff at Milton Keynes Theatre was all the sweeter with a glass in handThat rarest of beers: a lager you can take in to the second act of the opera! Falstaff, to be precise, in Glyndebourne on Tour's production at the Milton Keynes Theatre. In honour of Verdi's and Shakespeare's "globe of impurity", the magnificently gluttonous Sir John Falstaff (sung and acted with brilliant, gleeful energy and insight by Johanthan Veira), I enjoyed a San Miguel during act two's shenanigans,...

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