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Jerry Kilty, remembered for his Falstaff of last year, is back once again with a "tolerable deal of sack" by his side, and, of course, the combination is infallibly amusing. He plays Stephano, and is very ably matched by the Trinculo of David Andrews.' Together, the two romp and stomp about the stage, like two mad clowns--or is it two children inebriated only with springtime--and when joined with Caliban, it's a real howl...
This time, pudgy Conductor Reiner had no sensational Salome to work with. For his second opera, the Met hauled out of storage a number that takes elbow grease and even more finesse: Verdi's last, perhaps greatest but hardly popular opera, the ephemeral, fast-moving Falstaff...
...Allen has dispossessed two tenants: Senator Claghorn and Ajax Cassidy. Cassidy is gone for good, but the Senator will tub-thump occasionally during the election campaign. The vacancies have been let to a mysterious Russian, Sergei Strogonoff, and to a new rhyming character reminiscent of an old Alley resident, Falstaff Openshaw. Mrs. Nussbaum and Titus Moody have renewed their leases...
...also satisfied a debt of honor that had nagged him for 30 years. As a young man he had conducted Boito's pompously romantic opera, Mefistofele. Their friendship had ripened while Boito was busy winning greater fame as the librettist of Verdi's Otello and Falstaff-and plugging away for years at another opera of his own, Nerone...
...poetry and his superb dramatic skill. Said Verdi, after completing Otello at 73: "If I were 30 years younger, I should like to begin a new opera tomorrow-on the condition that Boito provided the libretto." Boito did, and the result (with Shakespeare's help) was Falstaff, one of the greatest triumphs of both words & music of them...