Handout - Opera Guild of Rochester
Handout - Opera Guild of Rochester
Handout - Opera Guild of Rochester
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Falstaff, after being thrown into theThames• Otto Nicolai’s s <strong>Opera</strong>tic Falstaff version from1849in the Merry wives <strong>of</strong> Windsor is a fusion <strong>of</strong> theGerman Romantic Singspiel and Italian <strong>Opera</strong>Buffa .• Nicolai was educated in Germany and in Italywhere he was exposed to the music <strong>of</strong> Bellini,Rossini and Donizetti.• Verdi’s s last opera from 1893 was influenced byWagner and the Verismo style orchestration