Falstaff (opera) Falstaff (opera) Falstaff () is a comic opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was adapted by Arrigo Boito from Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and scenes from "Henry IV", parts 1 and 2. The work premiered on 9 February 1893 at La Scala, Milan. Verdi wrote "Falstaff", which was the last of his 28 operas, as he was approaching the age of 80. It was his second comedy, and his third work based on a Shakespeare play, following "Macbeth" and "Otello". The plot revolves around the thwarted, sometimes farcical, efforts of the fat
Felix Knight Arwater Kent Foundation Scholarship Auditions of the Air, and made it to Manhattan prior to placing second in the judging. Upon returning to California, Knight sang at the Hollywood Bowl in the Giuseppe Verdi opera "La traviata" alongside Lily Pons, and then traveled to San Francisco, California, where he did Hector Berlioz's "La damnation de Faust" with the city's opera company. Once he returned to Hollywood, he continued voice studying and radio work, including the CBS program "Shell Mountain House" with Raymond Paige and his Orchestra. Knight finally made his screen debut in 1934 in RKO Pictures "Down to Their