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  InGiuseppe Verdi: Late years

  …into the perfect comic libretto,Falstaff, which Verdi set to miraculously fresh and mercurial music (and this time with fewer delays). This, his last dramatic work, produced at La Scala in 1893, avenged the cruel failure of Verdi’s only other comedy in the same theatre half a century earlier.

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history of opera

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  Inopera: Verdi

  …1893, was the comic masterpieceFalstaff (libretto by Boito, derived largely from Shakespeare’sMerry Wives of Windsor andHenry IV). An opera buffa with serious overtones,Falstaff always has been praised by critics and enthusiasts, but it has never become a true popular favourite.

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