Comedy, it has been said, is harder to do than drama — which only underlines the achievement Friday night of the Aspen Music Festival’s one-night-only production of Verdi’s opera Falstaff. It was a ...

ASPEN – Something good, often really good, happened every week this summer at the Aspen Music Festival. Not all of these moments were as predictable as my pick for the highlight of highlights – ...

Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also making room for a Puccini tragedy. By Rebecca Schmid For Ambrogio Maestri, a ...

Verdi’s brilliant final masterpiece Falstaff, in its first new Metropolitan Opera production in 50 years — and conducted by Met Music Director James Levine in his first Great Performances at the Met ...

Bryn Terfel, Adrienne Pieczonka, Dorothea Roschmann, Daniil Shtoda, Thomas Hampson, Larissa Diadkova, Stella Doufefexis; Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Claudio Abbado Deutsche Grammophon, $35.98 ...

With the obvious exception of the title character, Verdi's "Falstaff" is a true ensemble piece, an intricate mechanism of moving parts in which every performer plays an essential role. The chief ...

Los Angeles finally has its first new “Falstaff” in decades. We’re not alone. Verdi’s last opera, for some of us the finest comic opera and finest Shakespearean opera of all, a marvel of transcendent ...

While there is some competition from such mere septuagenarians as Claudio Monteverdi, Richard Wagner and Leos Janacek, the greatest opera ever written in old age is Giuseppe Verdi’s “Falstaff,” ...

Falstaff turning up the heat on his telecaster. Credit: Photo by Alex Wagner Johnny Falstaff is a good time lovin’, honky tonkin’, guitar slinging daddy. Usually decked out in suits reminiscent of ...

Johnny Falstaff is the thinking man's honky-tonker. The Texas native — he was born in Alice and currently resides in the Alvin/Pearland area — has crafted a smart, creative country sound. It's ...

In the past month, three local artists have dropped albums either recorded at Sugar Hill Studios or with Sugar Hill connections. The pick of the litter is Johnny Falstaff’s Honky Tonkin’ Daddy, ...