Falstaff, Holland Park, London
Holland Park, London: With Falstaff stagings positively ubiquitous this year, director Annelise Miskimmon - recently appointed to a prestigious position with Danish National Opera - is not alone in opting for an update. Here we seem to be between the wars as the action begins in a cottage hospital for recovering veterans. Sir John Falstaff - a war hero gone to seed? - holds court in a surreal metroland of Tudorbethan…