Falstaff

Teatru Manoel in collaboration with Malta National Opera (MNO) presents Giuseppe Verdi’s comical opera “Falstaff”. The Italian-language libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from the play The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, Part 1 and Part 2, by William Shakespeare. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan.



Falstaff was the last of Verdi’s 26 operas. It was his second comedy, and his third work based on a Shakespeare play, following Macbeth and Otello. The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat knight Sir John Falstaff to seduce two married women to gain access to their husbands’ wealth.

Falstaff Kiril Manolov

Ford Vittorio Prato

Alice Elisa Balbo

Nannetta Amelie Hois

Meg Page Annie Reilly

Quickly Isabel De Paoli

Fenton Nico Darmanin

Dr. Caius Stanley Portelli

Bardolfo Gareth Morris

Pistola Wyn Pencarreg



OperaNova Project Chorus

Malta Philharmonic Orchestra



Stage Director Barbara Diana

Conductor Federico Tibone

Designer Stewart Charlesworth