'Falstaff' at Opéra Bastille, Paris by Blouin Artinfo

Opéra Bastille in Paris will stage Giuseppe Verdi's "Falstaff" on select dates between October 26 and November 16, 2017.There is no work to compare with Falstaff. In his last opera, Giuseppe Verdi, then aged 84, delivered, from behind the mask of his buffoon-like rascal of a hero, the testimony of a life approaching its end and whose moral, like that of the opera, would be: life is but a joke. This indefinable comed…

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