VERDI: Falstaff - van Dam, Serra, Canonici, Berliner Philharmoniker. Solti (2 CDs)

The reissue of this recording marks a double celebration – the bicentenary of Verdi’s birth and the centenary of Solti’s. Solti’s second recording of Verdi’s Falstaff returns to the catalogue. Recorded ‘live’ at the Philharmonie in Berlin, it boasts a thoroughly imaginative cast and magnificent recorded sound.

VERDI
Falstaff

Sir John Falstaff: José van Dam
Mrs Alice Ford: Luciana Serra
Fenton: Luca Canonici
Ford: Paolo Coni
Dr. Caius: Kim Begley
Bardolph: Pierre Lefebvre
Pistol: Mario Luperi
Nannetta: Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz
Mistress Quickly: Marjana Lipovšek
Mrs. Meg Page: Susan Graham
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir Georg Solti