Opera Cheat Sheet | Houston Public Media

Eduard Grützner’s Falstaff (Wikimedia Commons) In this Opera Cheat Sheet, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly present a light-hearted overview of Verdi’s last opera. Only the second comedy Verdi ever wrote, Falstaff is based on the larger than life character from Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor and Henry IV who tries to seduce two women (who know each other!) at the same time. You can listen to San Francisco Opera’s performance of... Read More