Verdi’s beloved comedic opera plays at the California Theatre in San Jose Feb. 11-26.
Baritone Darren Drone got his first taste of playing Falstaff in a Santa Fe production last year. “I learned how to run upstairs while singing,” he says.Darren Drone is smiling a lot these days.
Fun is simply unavoidable in “Falstaff.” Adapted from Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and scenes from “Henry IV,” Parts One and Two, the opera was Verdi’s last: after writing some of opera’s greatest dramatic works, the composer turned to comedy and scored a triumph. Verdi, true to Shakespeare’s original, made “Falstaff” a man of enormous appetites. Therein lies much of the opera’s humor; the title character must also deal with the four women determined to outsmart him.
Joining Curtis in the female quartet are Megan Esther Grey , Shanley Horvitz , and Natalia Santaliz ; rounding out the cast are Eugene Brancoveanu , Jonghyun Park , Marc Molomot , and Zhengyi Bai . Director Condemi has staged the opera in the original period, with some clever touches. In recognition of Falstaff’s love of “sack” — the Spanish fortified wine that’s his beverage of choice — the production is set inside a gigantic wine barrel. That motif carries through the show, including in what appears to be Falstaff’s “throne,” also made of wine barrels.
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