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Falstaff

SIGDVD001

PAL DVD Region 0 16:19
AC3 5.1 / PCM Stereo
NEW RELEASE

Playing time: 118'
Chapters: 24
Booklet pages: 12
© 2006 Capriol Films Ltd / 2008 Signum Records
Reviewer: Robert Anderson
Review of Falstaff published on 29 October 2008

Watch and listen: Act 2, Scene 1 - Mrs Quickly's proposition

Ian Jervis, John Falstaff
Jan Hartley, Alice Ford
Julian Forsyth, Francis Ford QC
Simon Butteriss, Doctor Cajus
Daniel Gillingwater, Bardolph
Simon Masterton Smith, Pistol
Marilyn Cutts, Mrs Quickly
Rosamund Shelley, Meg Page
Katie Lovell, Nanetta Ford
Andy Morton, Fenton

Falstaff in a new version by Tony Britten, based on the opera by Verdi and Boito

Act 1, Scene 1 - The members' bar
Falstaff's plan
Act 1, Scene 2 - The ladies foursome
Sneaking to Francis Ford QC
The young lovers
The ladies are plotting
The octet
Act 2, Scene 1 - Mrs Quickly's proposition
Signor Fontana
Act 2, Scene 2 - Alice Ford's house
The big seduction
Ford is home!
Bathroom action
Act 3, Scene 1 - off to the dump
Falstaff the health hazard
Mrs Quickly tries again
Alice and Ford counter-plotting
Act 3, Scene 2 - Herne's oak
Herne the horny hunter
Wood nymphs and fairies
The revenge of the Mafia
The denouement
The fugue
End titles

Behind the scenes documentary

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