Verdi's brilliant final masterpiece returns to English National Opera to mark the centenary of the composer's death.
Andrew Shore leads a fine ensemble cast as the fat and lecherous knight of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
English National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Paul Daniel
Part 1
8.55 Twenty Minutes: Verdi and Boito
A dramatisation by Jules Mascarenhas.
After an estrangement of 16 years, Verdi and Boito were persuaded to collaborate on Otello and Falstaff. But how did Verdi make his peace with the hot-headed man who had once described his music as defiling the altar of art like the wall of a brothel?
(R)
9.15 Part 2