Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival announced the world premiere of FALSTAFF, a new work drawn entirely from Shakespeare's own ...

The final chapter of the Falstaff story is a difficult one to write. It involves thousands of people losing their jobs, a family losing the company they had built for generations, historic breweries ...

In Steppenwolf Theatre’s “Amadeus,” running through January, Antonio Salieri is the villain. That play and its 1984 film adaptation repeated fictions that have tarred the composer’s reputation for ...

As the 1960s dawned in America, Falstaff stood at the height of its success. It was the third largest brewery in America after only Anheuser-Busch and Schlitz. Meanwhile, the decline of regional ...

Ivan Hewett is The Telegraph’s Classical Music Critic and an author whose works include Music: Healing The Rift, a personal history of modern music. He has been involved in music as a composer, ...

With the opening production of the new season, Manitoba Opera has finally presented all three of Verdi's Shakespeare operas. The aging master had his eye on the future and on the progressive ...

Reginald Smith, Jr. as the immortal Falstaff. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane When Baritone Reginald Smith, Jr. sings the title role in Falstaff, the last opera ever composed by Giuseppe Verdi, and only ...

Perfection is not of this world, and indeed we have difficulty even in conceiving of what it could be. We suspect that it might be boring and therefore, paradoxically, imperfect. Our natures are ...

Harold Bloom is the leading literary critic of our time and the only one in English whose influence and originality can rival that of Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher. Like Derrida, whom he ...

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 ...

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 ...