Now, before we get into the fundamentals of how you can watch 'Falstaff' right now, here are some notable highlights about the Deutsche Grammophon flick. Falstaff starring Gabriel Bacquier, Richard Stilwell, Max René Cosotti, John Lanigan has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 2 hr 5 min.
Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "This performance, and the film that documents it, is superb! From its comically vulgar opening in the Garter Inn, where we are introduced to a rotund (and slightly pathetic) Falstaff - in a richly nuanced performance by baritone Gabriel Bacquier cocooned in prosthetic girth (his face is too thin for the enormity to be real) - to the supremely beautiful nocturnal magic of the Finale in Windsor Park, Solti is lovingly accompanied by the sublime Vienna Philharmonic. They play with such delicacy and elan what is an undeniably delicate score, that I lost myself in the instrumentation, forgot it was Verdi, thought it was Mozart, and couldn't remember which Mozartean Opera this was. The woodwinds and strings are singled out for special praise: perfect intonation and phrasing doesn't begin to do them justice. They breathe life into this score, propel it forward, act as a Chorus commenting on the action."
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