The music school at Rice University is offering a wide range of concerts and collaborations for the 2025-26 year.

While much has changed since the time of William Shakespeare, human nature has not, according to Deanna Sparrow, who taught courses on the playwright at Slippery Rock University. She ...

Falstaff, based on The Merry Wives of Windsor, was Verdi’s third Shakespearean opera, an opera buffa which the composer ...

The quick ditty has Bruce singing the praises of Falstaff as a thirst quencher and the first beer you reach for.

Sean Holmes’s revival of the Falstaff spin-off reputedly written at Elizabeth I’s request (it’s suggested she wanted to see ...

Falstaff, Glyndebourne review – knockabout and nostalgia in postwar Windsor A fat knight to remember, and snappy stagecraft, overcome some tedious waits ...

Shakespeare's comedy is out of step with modern tastes, thanks to its body shaming. Sean Holmes's new production gets around the problem by casting slim George Fouracres as Falstaff.

Read our review of Falstaff at Glyndebourne: Richard Jones directs a masterful revival of Verdi's comic opera, featuring a discovery in Valentina Pernozzoli ...

GENEVA — Geneva Light Opera is presenting three fully staged performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s comic opera “Falstaff,” which is based on Shakespeare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor,” later this month.

From the animatronic cat on the bar of the Garter Inn to the rowers’ crew who haul their craft across the stage and the military ranks of “Dig for Victory” cabbages arrayed in Ford’s garden, all the ...

The Merry Wives of Windsor: Reinventing Falstaff – as a bit of a catch In the Globe’s revival, Shakespeare’s ‘fat knight’ becomes a desirable charmer who the mistresses can’t keep ...