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A live performance of Verdi's comic opera Fa/staffgiven as the opening production at the new Royal Opera House, Covent
Garden. Graham Vick 's dramatic new production can also be seen on BBC2. Bryn Terfel leads the cast as the fat and lecherous knight of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Bernard Haitink Parti
8.50 Twenty Minutes:
Falstaff Julian Evans talks to American scholar Harold Bloom about the character of Shakespeare's Falstaff and his new book, Shakespeare, the Invention of the Human.
9.10 Part 2

Contributors

Unknown:
Graham Vick
Conductor:
Bernard Haitink
Talks:
Falstaff Julian Evans
Unknown:
Harold Bloom
Sir John Falstaff:
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Alice Ford:
Barbara Frtttoll (soprano)
Ford:
Roberto Frontali (baritone)
Mistress Quickly:
Bernadette Manca Dinissa (mezzo)
DrCaius:
Robin Leggate (tenor)
Fenton:
Kenneth Carver (tenor)
Nanetta:
Desiree Rancatore (soprano)
Meg Page:
Diana Montague (mezzo)
Bardolpho:
Peter Hoare (tenor)
Pistola:
Gwynne Howell (bass)
Source: Radio Times

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